“Fig Leaves and Dear Stones” by artists Liina Siib and Riina Varol

On Thursday, 24 April at 6 PM, the exhibition Fig Leaves and Dear Stones by artists Liina Siib and Riina Varol will be opened at FOKU Gallery (Väike-Karja 10, Tallinn).

The exhibition features works by Liina Siib from 2002—2006/2025, mostly not exhibited in Tallinn before, and a newly completed photo series by Riina Varol.

Liina Siib’s images are photographed in museums and a botanical garden and the artworks revolve around questions on morality and ethics, taboos and ideals, ways of representation and politics of representation. In her three dimensional photo collages, Riina Varol has focused on stones, fossilisation, source material and imitation, collecting and leaving behind. The photo series by Siib and Varol are linked through bodies molded into solid material, (artificial) preservation of the organic and the natural, and the different layers and dynamics between exposure and non-exposure. 

Liina Siib (b. 1963) is a visual artist, filmmaker, educator, curator and editor, based in Tallinn. Her works strive for ambiguity and open-endedness. She deals with topics, characters, spaces and situations which tend to go unnoticed due to their ordinariness, or are silenced or ignored. In 2011, her project A Woman Takes Little Space represented Estonia at the 54th Venice Art Biennale. Since 2015, she works as the Professor of Graphic Art at the Estonian Academy of Arts.

Riina Varol (b. 1979) is an Estonian artist and photographer who concentrates her creative approach on issues of sensorial perception, the functions of the unconscious, animism and eastern philosophy. Her work spans a range of media including site-specific multimedia installations, photography, video, sound, tactility and smell.

FOKU gallery is run by the Estonian Union of Photography Artists (FOKU).

Supporters:
Cultural Endowment of Estonia, Põhjala Brewery

Partners:
Rüki gallery

Thanks to:
Craftrag, Mikk Heinsoo, Karel Koplimets, Tanja Muravskaja, Valerio Sarnataro, UBS Repro, Tiina Varol

FOKU Gallery
Väike-Karja 10, Tallinn
Thu—Sat 12—18
And by appointment 

Additional information:
Hedi Jaansoo
hedi.jaansoo@foku.ee
+37255944447
www.foku.ee