Kristen Rästas exhibition opening “Look up. Look up in the sky” im roam project space.

“Look up. Look up in the sky” is an art project comprising the same titled 3D animation VR artwork and mixed media room installation, which took their first shape during the time the world just started to open up again. Due to this, they address a certain spatial-spiritual self-location as well as the need for freedom for personal development. The digital sphere can offer an essential room to be, communicate and express, yet it carries a dystopian atmosphere in itself. In the moment the human kind destroys the planet’s assets, these spaces will be our only realm of daily escapism. The exhibition reflects on such ambiguous times of crisis and demands to broaden our perspective by looking deep into our emotional structures.

The artworks reflect on landscape motifs, in which it is questionable how true to life or how artificial they are. They are in constant search of a digital salvation, of a safe place away from the dangers of the physical world. This exhibition is a journey to self-discovery, coming out of a dark winter, escaping a collective trauma and crisis by placing the viewer onto an open ambient field symbolising times of innocence.

The fragmented room installation, together with the virtual reality centrepiece, form a poetic whole, in which the artist tells a fictive narrative of self-exploration and the need for daydreaming in order to offer oneself a peace of mind.

Opening:
06/07/23 from 6 to 9 pm
Open until:
22/07/23 every Thursday to Saturday from 4 to 7 pm
Or by appointment: team@roam-projects.eu

roam project space
Lindenstraße 91,
10969 Berlin

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Sound production by Mataya Waldenberg

Funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media in the program NEUSTART KULTUR Module D – Digital Mediation Formats

Production supported by Cultural Endowment of Estonia

Artist’s gratitude to roam team, Kelli Gedvil, Ian-Simon Märjama, Kennet Lekko, Martin Viidik, James Hilsdon