Fringes, Edges, Roots and Corners

Fringes, Edges, Roots and Corners

Series of photographs
2023–2024

You, River
Hedi Jaansoo, Peeter Tooming, Endel Veliste
Kumu Art Museum, 2023—2024
Curator: Annika Toots

Exhibition team
Curator: Annika Toots
Artists: Hedi Jaansoo, Peeter Tooming and Endel Veliste
Exhibition design: Villu Plink
Graphic design: Tuuli Aule
Coordinator: Anastassia Langinen

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Edition of 5 + 2AP 
Pigment prints on aluminium composite
Aluminium frame
80 × 120 cm
2023

Printed on Canson Edition Etching 310gsm acid–free FineArt paper, mounted on aluminium composite and framed in white Nielsen aluminium profile frame with pink spacer and Artglass.

Fringes, Edges, Roots and Corners is a series of photographs taken on daily trajectories in Tallinn and Viljandi (Estonia), Espoo (Finland) and Brussels (Belgium). The series captures personal spaces, domestic nature, within urban enironments that are created on the borders of private and public realms. Personal spaces that might extend into public, but not necessarily. Public spaces that are turned personal. Acts of taking space for oneself, but not at the expense of others. More or less shared realms that are not-yet-standardized, spaces that cannot be taken for granted, some of them already gone by now.

Part of the series in turn captures urban nature in public spaces that has survived despite human actions, in ever-present danger of getting in the way.

The exhibition You, River brought together three different, yet equally sensitive artistic visions. Through the lens of a camera, the photographers Peeter Tooming (1939–1997) and Endel Veliste (1930–2001) and the visual artist Hedi Jaansoo (b 1989) recorded points of intersection between human beings and nature. Their photographic series exemplify how the camera may amplify the distance from the surrounding environment, lend voices to stones, plants and water, and make the intrinsic interlacing of natural and artificial environments visible.