Symbiosis

Tartu Art House, Tartu, Estonia

Oct 11 - Nov 10, 2024

With Art Allmägi

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"Symbiosis" was the third and final exhibition of the artists' collaboration, in which the sacred trinity of the art world - author, idea and work - was elevated to an object of study.

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The aim of the series of joint exhibitions was to create a creative process based on the principle of correlation, with observable interaction. When partially handed over, the opportunity to fully control one's own creative process dislocates the individual relationship between author and work. This mutual creative reflection provides a chance to explore the intrinsic facets of the media of painting and sculpture, which are added or lost as they move from the planar to the spatial (or vice versa).

In the first exhibition of the collaboration, Piile's paintings were influenced/reflected by Allmägi's work. The aim of the second collaborative exhibition was to create a dual-media exhibition, where the visual language and ideational background would form a cohesive environment that blurred the boundaries of authorship. In order to close the circle, the works created by Allmägi in the final exhibition of the series were influenced by the works of Piile.

The core of Piile's works in the exhibition in Tartu Art House originate from the last joint collaboration project “Origami”, and further developments of the works shown there. Allmägi's works, in turn, are directly inspired by Piile's work. Allmägi's works incorporate, in addition to formal references, methods that Piile has used in her earlier work. The questions were: what was lost, what was retained and what was added?