On the 27th and 28th of April we will open the VARES spring exhibition, where Ola Lewczyk, Ben Weir and the artist duo DE JENS showcase their work done during the residency. The works are material, sensuous and community focused interventions that are shown in VARES house and around the town of Valga.
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Programme:
Saturday, April 27
13:00 Brick-making workshop in VARES’ garden
15:00 Furniture walk from VARES -> town square (Riia 5)
16:00 Installation opening on the town square (Riia 5)
Sunday, April 28:
14:00-19:00 open doors at Riia 5 and courtyard
Ola’s brick-making workshop is open to anyone interested and includes working with clay with both hands and feet, please dress accordingly.
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Ola Lewczyk’s installation CLAY concentrates on the humble clay brick, mixed with domestic and day-to-day waste. She rethinks what local material production might look like, docusing on the kiln used for ceramic work, building it up from raw clay bricks to produce unique pieces inspired by the Valga context.
Ben Weir’s installation HEAT researches the ways heated furniture could look like. He will construct small scale pieces inside the VARES building with its fluctuating temperatures that are unplugged from the traditional fixed heating structures of houses (radiators, furnaces and boilers). During the spring exhibition, Ben will organize a furniture procession, taking the warm pieces into the town of Valga.
DE JENZ duos COMMUNITY intervention is a collaborative installation that researches the unique historic and contemporary context of Valga and Valka. They will search for unused spaces with hidden potential where together with the local youth they will construct an informal gathering space that will be left for the local community to use and care for.
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