A duo show of Hedi Jaansoo & Juliana Lindenhofer (AT). She put the butterfly on the door and said spring has now arrived was first and foremost a collaboration, an exchange of ideas based on a shared sensibility toward material and a sensitivity towards the world. It grew out of a connection, formed between the two artists who met in Brussels in a residency a couple of years before. It’s a bond that still holds strong, containing enough friendship and creative trust to let conversations materialise as an exhibition.

She put a butterfly… put forward a constellation of artworks created independently by the two artists in their studios in Tallinn and in Vienna, their practices quite different from one another. Hedi and Juliana share a fascination towards fragments, working with their poetics and power in a world, where everything seems to increasingly break apart, where divides deepen and it is easy to succumb to a sense of hopelessness. Still, both are looking how to put things back together, even if it means by starting small, just with things in your immediate reach, how to navigate fragmentary states and vulnerability that could be read as powerlessness. Yet, Hedi’s and Juliana’s works suggest that in these states of half-life and becoming, strength can also be found.

Text by Keiu Krikmann