Sohvi Viik

„What Is Real Is Imagined”

The exhibition included 234 blurred photos of my personal photo album, from the years of 1995-2016. Photos were sized 10 x 15 cm and framed on the wall, side by side. I numbered all the pictures and a recorded a woman’s voice called out the number and title that I had given to each picture.

I am working with visual memory through space and photography. How will a photographic recording start affecting our memory processes; how will a photograph construct and influence our memories? To what extent will an image start to shape our fantasy? I am fascinated by the comparison of a shot as it appears in one’s memory and the very photograph of it. How the photo actually starts to create or at least alter or effect the memory.

Solo exhibition in Draakon Gallery,  Tallinn 2016.

Group exhibition „TASE”, Estonian Academy of Arts (EKA), Tallinn 2016. 

Solo exhibition in Draakon Gallery, Tallinn 2016.

I am facinated by the abstract magic of damaged analog photos.

It often happens that first and last frames of the analogue cameras film are damaged by lighting or some other reason. Sometimes half of the image is destroyed, but the other half of the photo is somehow preserved. Sometimes pictures get damaged unexpectedly, in the middle of the film roll. New inexplicable plays of light and colors appear on the images, raising questions about the actual time and scenes what supposed to appear on these photos.

Solo exhibition in Positiiv Gallery, Tallinn 2017. 

Solo exhibition in Ait Gallery, Tallinn 2019.