Awful pretty pipe neck
Estonie
2017Galerie Invitée
Theories are buildings that sometimes collapse. Ideas grow like plants. Anger is warm and fear is cold. Understanding is seeing, and seeing is touching. Problems are constructed objects that can be dismantled, piece by piece. Time is money…
Based on Metaphors We Live By, by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson, the focus of the series Awful Pretty Pipe Neck lies in applying the concept of catachresis to serve the visual material. This series is a curious and arbitrary way to tell stories, to change the direction of ready-made objects depending on the relation between the objects and the eyes that look at them.
With the support of the Estonian Embassy in Paris and the Estonian Ministry of Culture
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About the artist
Sigrid Viir was born in 1979. She works and lives in Tallinn (Estonia). Viir studied cultural theory at the Estonian Humanitarian Institute, after which she acquired both BA and MA in Photography at the Estonian Academy of the Arts. Her solo practice is at a junction between photography and installation while at the artist collective Visible Solutions LLC she explores the relationship between art and economy. Her work was exhibited many times in Estonia.