2023
We were invited to create an installation for the Estonian National Art Museum KUMU, as part of the exhibition Art in the Age of the Anthropocene. Placed inside in the courtyard, which itself is quarried into a limestone cliff, our work exposes natural and man-made layers that are part of the earth's strata. The work includes a labyrith of balanced concrete blocks, spread across heavy timber beams, fallen trees and drill cores samples from the North-Estonian coast.
The 1,5tn concrete blocks are made of excess concrete from production lines. Layers are formed as various tail end mixes are poured into identical formworks. These mixes portray construction projects across Estonia, from infrastructure to housing. Arranged irregularly, as if a natural force has shaped them, they give an insight to the creation of human made earth's crust.
The drill cores have changed hands and locations over many years, and as the information about drill sites is lost, they hold no value as geological data. Yet as objects, they are testifiers to the layers of earth, formed in ancient tropical seas along the current northern Estonian coastline. We were immediately inspired by the appearance of sediments - regardless if they had formed over millions of years or over a period of couple of weeks.
Photos: Päär Joonap Keedus