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Pigment photo, red aluminium frame, red passepartout, glass, 1/4 + 2 AP
66,5 × 95 cm
2021
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Introduction

As a counterbalance to unrealistic beauty ideals, it’s sometimes good to sit at a bus stop and observe everyone around you. Someone is going to work, someone is going home, someone has their backpack zipped wide open, someone smells like pancakes and someone is staring at you, instead. Everyone is so humanly interesting, but no one is completely perfect. 

Red lips and “flaws” are part of a larger (self)portrait without a face or a name to go with it, making you look at and evaluate things differently. Such rawness, courage and the opportunity to examine someone else so closely while invisible brings you down to earth for a moment, like a little reality check.

About the artist

Birgit Kaleva alias motoerotica (1996) is a freelance artist living in her hometown Kanepi. She graduated from Tartu Art School with a degree in Stylistics (2019) and Pallas Art School with a BA in Photography (2024). In her work, she deals with everything personal and surrounding that life has thrown at her – how growing up in a small town has affected her self-image, what life is like working in a family business, and if there is even a place for someone like her. All bright and painful subjects are accompanied by self-irony.

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