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Passing Arcs I

Passing Arcs I

Graphite, colour pencil on paper, framed
62 × 44 cm
2020
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Introduction

Anna Mari Liivrand often depicts landscapes that have a fairytale-like quality to them or somehow refer to distant times (or gardens) in her drawings. These are fantasy spaces, where past and yet unarticulated visions of the future meet. To accompany her drawings, the artist says: “In these drawings, I imagined ruins or skeletons in various stages of decay. ‘Scattered’ objects in the space also refer to ruins. At the same time, these ‘ruins’ are very carefully composed and looked after, raising the question that maybe decay is not always accidental and regrettable.” At the exhibition “Home of Good Thoughts”, the world the drawings “Passing Arcs I”, “Passing Arcs II” and “Passing Arcs III” partly flows into the gallery and one of the depicted compositions “Encircling” can be found in the space. It is a kind of a park sculpture which, when taken from the park in the drawing to a real interior, acquires new dimensions and sensory potential. The park is an opportunity for walking, in the course of which the forms and shapes of the route change, but the trajectory still remains circular.

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About the artist

Anna Mari Liivrand (b. 1993, Keila, Estonia) is an Estonian artist living and working in Tallinn. Her formal education includes a Master’s degree from the Contemporary Art Department (2022) and a Bachelor’s degree from the Sculpture and Installation Department (2016) at the Estonian Academy of Arts. She also studied fine arts at the Iceland University of the Arts (2015). She has been a recipient of the Estonian Cultural Endowment’s annual award (2021), the Eduard Wiiralt Prize (2020) and the Young Sculptor Prize (2014).

Liivrand’s recent exhibitions include Between Borders, Between Materials at the Estonian Museum of Applied Art and Design, Tallinn, Estonia (2025); White Dwarfs and All Those Beautiful Nebulas at Kim. Contemporary Art Centre, Riga, Latvia (2024–25); Emotional Landscapes at Arka Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania; In the Shadows of Crumbling Silhouettes at Tütar Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia (2023); Still Lifes on National Motifs at the Estonian Museum of Applied Art and Design, Tallinn, Estonia; Prick of a Daisy at ARS Project Space, Tallinn, Estonia (2021); and Artishok Biennale Copy at Kai Art Center and public spaces in Tallinn, Estonia (2020). Kogo Gallery has presented Liivrand’s works at the Liste Art Fair Basel (2023) and Esther, New York (2024).

Liivrand’s works are part of the collections of the Art Museum of Estonia and private collections around Europe and the USA.

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