Eesti :: Jay-Dea Lopez
22 Jun - 25 Aug 2019
Gallery 2
Official opening: 6pm Fri 5 July 2019
Eesti is a video work consisting of field-recordings and photographs taken over a number of weeks in the village of Mooste, Estonia.
Arriving at the beginning of winter the incongruous sounds and sights of Mooste initially stimulated the artist’s senses. Relics from the colonial Soviet-era stood alongside traditional Estonian residences; forests stood beside barren winter farmland. However the weight of Mooste’s colonial history and its dark northern winter gradually became oppressive. The low frequencies emanating from local objects began to reflect the harsh surrounds.
Through the use of sound and image Eesti explores our emotional response to location and is a study into the psycho-geographic construction of “place”.
