Eve Kiiler (FOKU)

Eve Kiiler (EE, b. 1960) is an artist, a curator, a teacher, and an active spokesperson for the medium of photography. Her personal projects often explore changes in the urban landscape and public space, as well as observing visitors to museums and exhibition venues. Her solo exhibitions include Urban Observations: Fenced Garden City (2016), Looking through the Windows (2018), Old and New Neighbours (2019), Location Scouting by the Sea (2020), All Roads lead to the Sea (2021), Alone in the City (2022) and Everyone is at Home (2023). Currently, Kiiler is a lecturer at Baltic Film, Media and Arts School, Tallinn University. Her works are included in the public collections of the Art Museum of Estonia, the Museum of Estonian Architecture and the Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago.

 

Informed by an interest in the representation of urban landscapes and layers of time, Kiiler’s photographs here depict views of two Estonian seaside towns: Pärnu and Haapsalu. These images neither reflect familiar picture-postcard views, nor do they capture gems of historical or contemporary architecture. Instead, the artist fixes her gaze on the diverse temporal space of the living environment – primarily individual houses – where traces of long-term use and ongoing processes of renovation coexist.

 

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Artist is presented by FOKU