Through still lifes, glued-together images, photographing, printing and rephotographing, Hedi Jaansoo attends to silences, traces, the uncertainty of persistence, (in)visibility, looking and overlooking.

Jaansoo searches for a silence that makes space for the quiet speaker. And a silence that makes space for those who have been silenced. A silence in which one does not have to shout to be heard, nor shine to be seen. Yet if there is a need to shout, one can shout. And if you sparkle, then sparkle.

The exhibition presents a (photo) series produced this year, one of whose central motifs is a pair of tulips photographed in the artist’s courtyard last year. More precisely, the central motif — and source material — is a taped and glued sketch depicting these tulips, created during the working process of a previous exhibition¹. In this way, a sketch for an earlier work has become the central motif of the present exhibition.

A characteristic feature of Jaansoo’s practice is her focus on what remains in the background or at the margins: the ephemeral, the more-or-less held together, and the traces left by working processes and surrounding spaces. Alongside what is depicted, the process of creating and mediating the photographic image itself is equally important — the ways in which framing and reframing allow to bring layers of perception into view.

¹ Hedi Jaansoo & Juliana Lindenhofer She put the butterfly on the door and said spring has now arrived. Draakon Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia. 27.08—20.09.2025

See also: Contemporary Art Library