ashcape
tuhkus
❊ participant in the 9th Artishok biennale ‘Siesta‘
Year: 2025
Location: Tallinn, Estonia
Type: temporary installation
Status: built
Team: Eneli Kleemann, Saskia Epp Lõhmus, Katariina Mustasaar, Mia Martina Peil, Marie Anette Veesaar, Anna Riin Velner, Lill Volmer
Materials: repurposed burnt CLT arches from the Straw Chapel, ash, earth, mirrors
Photos: Joosep Kivimäe
‘Perhaps we have reached a point where the human contribution has become irrelevant.’ – Tõnis Kahu, in his interpretation of Aschape
‘Artishok Biennial is a dynamic exhibition format connecting selected artists and writers on a shared platform since 2008. The new artworks created specially for the biennale form the central exhibition that will be paired with texts, offering the visitors a hundred different ways for interpreting these artworks. The curators of the 9th biennial are Brigit Arop and Margit Säde.’ Read more
‘Where can one mourn? Does anyone know of a place to mourn? No colour, just charred bones, ashes, a sort of abandoned, overgrown spot – has anyone seen anything like it?
There is one? It’s actually in the city centre? Have you been there?’
– Sanna Kartau, in her interpretation of Aschape
‘Through artistic means, a composition has been created with the aim of emphasising the empty spaces in the city – those that are simply passed by in everyday life – and the tragic incidents that are encoded into the essence of a city.’
– Merle Karro-Kalberg, in her interpretation of Aschape
