Liina Siib, Riina Varol "Fig Leaves and Dear Stones"

FOKU gallery 25.04–12.07.2025

Väike-Karja 10, Tallinn

Thu–Sat 12–18 and by appointment

The exhibition Fig Leaves and Dear Stones features works by Liina Siib from 2003—2006/2025, previously not exhibited in Tallinn, and a newly completed photo series by Riina Varol.

Liina Siib’s works, photographed in museums and the botanical garden, revolve around questions about morality and ethics, taboos and ideals, ways of representation and politics of representation. Riina Varol focuses on stones, fossilization, source material and imitation, collecting and leaving behind. Siib’s and Varol’s photo series are linked by bodies molded into solid material, the (artificial) preservation of the organic and the natural, and the different layers and dynamics of displaying and not displaying.

Liina Siib is a visual artist, filmmaker, educator, curator and editor, based in Tallinn. Her works strive for ambiguity and open-endedness. She deals with topics, characters, spaces and situations which tend to go unnoticed due to their ordinariness, or are silenced or ignored. In 2011, her project ‘A Woman Takes Little Space’ represented Estonia at the 54th Venice Art Biennale. Since 2015, she works as the Professor of Graphic Art at the Estonian Academy of Arts.

Riina Varol is an Estonian artist and photographer who concentrates her creative approach on issues of sensorial perception, the functions of the unconscious, animism and eastern philosophy. Her work spans a range of media including site-specific multimedia installations, photography, video, sound, tactility and smell.

FOKU gallery is run by the Estonian Union of Photography Artists (FOKU).

Opening drinks are provided by Põhjala Brewery

Supporters: Cultural Endowment of Estonia

Partners: Rüki gallery