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Soikmets will present her series of “Visual stories via states’n’souls”, specifically the parts shot in Latvia and London. Her technique is to combine classics of local literature with her own analogue photos so that a totally new visual story emerges where tiniest stones from the street start to speak with greatest words from the book. A narrative photography, as she calls it. This time, Peters Bruveris and John Constable are the narrators while Jurmala and London play the role of “endless exiles” and “sins, loss, grief of the world” on the background.

TRIINU SOIKMETS

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SILJA MANNINEN

From a background in professional fashion, Manninen's art utilises the construction of clothing with an expert's knowledge. She is experimenting with fabrics, using cotton webbing and recycled silk to explore themes of memory and movement in time.

JUDE COWAN MONTAGUE

'He Had a Star Tattoo on his Hand'

A painting from a new series of meditations on metal looking back at Montague's seafaring ancestry.

Tales of gods, wayward men and crossings.

'Many moons ago, a sailor came from the Curonian Spit to Scotland. He was my ancestor and we never forgot his Baltic heritage although we lived in exile among the heather and the mills.'

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RIITTA HAKKARAINEN & JUDE COWAN MONTAGUE

'Aino Väinö'

A vacation in the imaginary past. Work begun at Hirvitalo in Tampere, Finland exploring Finnish mythology, gender and physical exposure to nature. From a series of photographs of costumed play. At the Holy Lake.

CASSANDRA MAHONEY

Reflecting Mahoney's personal and poignant interpretation of catastrophe and history her sequence of large oil paintings respond to the urban and natural landscapes of war.

VERONICA SHIMANOVSKAYA

Shimanovskaya is producing a site specific installation evoking and invoking the senses and feelings of the Baltic accumulated over a lifetime begun on the Gulf of Finland. She often changes geographic location which helps her maintain her fresh perception. Her experience on the Kronfest art residency in St Petersburg (2014) led to her corroding sculpture 'The Net' being installed in the municipal square.

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NATALIA JEZOVA

Jezova is showing photo-collages from a series which combine photographs from her family archive and photographs she has taken in places where her family lived. She will also show a film, made in Lithuania about the silenced history of the Holocaust in Veliucionys, Vilnius.

MERILIIS RINNE

Rinne is producing paintings inspired by the English painter Turner. His mysterious landscapes remind her of bogs and mires in Estonia. Bogs and mires are important in Estonian folklore and they are seen as places of mystery and peace. For Rinne, Turner's paintings also have this effect.

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JU RI MI

Mia Kukathasan / Jude Cowan Montague / Riitta Hakkarainen

Improvisational music on Baltic Domestic Goddesses. Sounds made with the vargan and the voice around a kitchen table with a hot samovar.

MANDY PROWSE

Prowse is embarking on a journey across an unknown Baltic landscape full of memories left by her Latvian Grandmother, Natalija in her paintings,photographs, textiles, diaries and letters.

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ANNE ISAKSSON

Having recently recovered from open heart surgery, that experience has brought an altered perspective for Isaksson. She is expressing her transformed consciousness through these photographic pieces that continue from earlier work, yet have a new quality that the pictures themselves are defining.

ANN GRIM

Grim contemplates the possible future scenario of Earth's surface submerged by the waters, facing migratory crisis and space conquest. The speculated bird's eye view is above the Baltic Sea in the Earth year 3047 and more specifically of submerged Tallinn. This is one of a longer series of resin paintings in which Grim invites the view to imagine with the artist what could be taking place and what kind of values might come to inhabit this estranged future-verse.