Kärt Hammer „HELP/APPI“

Moving on with mythological, religious, mystical and fairy-tale themes familiar to the collective memory, I ask again – where do faith, hope and love fit into the contemporary context? Are and how are centuries-old stories and myths relevant to society and the individual today? What distinguishes us, what binds us? Why do we live and for what do we die? Who will come to save us? When will a new Noah’s Ark be built? These questions require aesthetic and theoretical solutions. Or if not solutions, then comfort for progress and a boost for hope for the future. Perhaps the answer lies in some other dimension that has no name. Because the situation is unreal.

The sea container turns black, radiating hopeful yellow and iridescent gold, in which a small black boat is rowing, ready to take us away. Do we need a new reality or a better fantasy?

Kärt Hammer (b. 1988) is an interdisciplinary artist who mainly focuses on purely aesthetic and intuitive abstraction in her work, avoiding excessive textuality. She has studied philosophy (BA 2011) and cultural theory (MA 2014) at Tallinn University. In her work, she has dealt with the paradox of the possibility and impossibility of interpreting a work of art. The darker sides of human nature, the contact of the divine and the human, the metaphorical sexuality that permeates everywhere, are important, and are cast in a minimalistic, precise form.