Angela Soop "Peacetime Monuments"

GÜ Gallery 28.04-17.05.2025

Mon–Fri 12–18, Sat 12–16

Opening 28 April 5 PM

Project got a kickstart on year 2019, when I started to hoist up peace flags to old abandoned houses. "Peacetime Monuments. Peace Flags" is a duration action, which is continually taking place in public space. Natural destruction, the beauty of decomposition. Breakages that have happened over time. Peace flags are at the abandoned places for reconciliation, forgiveness and as a sign of peace.

In the gallery space there is a site-specific complete solution from one idea, that has accumulated over a long period of time and changed in compliance with it. Different materials and mediums show locomotion, which regardless of incomprehensible action confirm their right to live despite of that.

GÜ Gallery offers a possibility to bring together and see the scattered and hidden part of the duration action in artistic projection. Peace flags are not associated with any country, political direction or institution. They are nothing more than a symbol to be at peace.

As part of the exhibition, the book "Four Seasons" presentation will be held on 28.04 17.00. The book contains texts and photographs from the exhibition series "War and Peace" I-IV. "Peacetime Monuments. Peace Flags" is part II of the exhibition series.

Angela Soop (1970) has graduated Estonian Academy of Arts with a degree in painting in 1999 and a master's degree in art education in 2018. She has been exhibiting since 1997. In addition to teaching, she is active in several fields: drawing, painting, photography, site-specific installations, and exhibitions and television studio design. At Estonian Public Broadcasting, she has created designs for the programs Aktuaalne Kaamera, Välisilm, Terevisioon, Plekktrumm, etc. She has twice been awarded with the ERR's Best Artist Award. In 2021, Soop was rewarded with a diploma at the 6th Tallinn International Drawing Triennial "Impulse". The artist, who mainly uses painting and drawing tools in her work, has been reusing and reinterpreting various materials for years, such as rusty metal plates, aged wood and plywood boards, fabrics and home textiles.