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In my electrified painting series "Femme Fiasco," featuring bold colors, exaggerated expressions, and irreverent humor, where I explore the symbiosis of women and animals as a fusion of nature and social identity. I remind myself, above all, that with my quirks, flaws, and complexities, often perceived as "fiascos". I am instead confronted with the force of nature and a unique value that must be acknowledged, embraced, and celebrated. "Femme Fiasco" invites viewers on a rollercoaster journey through the winding paths of marsh mice and identity.  ____//____ Julgete värvide, liialdatud ilmete ja lugupidamatu huumoriga elektrifitseeritud maaliseerias "Femme Fiasko", käsitlen naist ja...

14.12.2023 Ramiro Camelo An interview with Tallinn-based artist Katrin Valgemäe “Queens of Chaos”, a solo exhibition by Tallinn-based artist Katrin Valgemäe, opens at Myymälä 2 in Helsinki on December 17. Valgemäe is an unconventional painter who defies convention. Her art devises an idyllic parodic universe built through a playful conscious eccentricity, which is the basis of her laid-back pictorial style. Valgemäe talks with the exhibition’s curator, Ramiro Camelo, about her troubled memories during the Soviet occupation, the agitated lifestyle in 90s Tallinn, and the inspiration behind her Myymälä 2 exhibition. Hello, Katrin. It’s a bit of a cliché, but – let’s start from...

    The artist Katrin Valgemäe herself has said that self-portrait plays an important role in her work: “I paint / analyse my life through humour. My grandmother, my mother, me, and my daughter are a line of women that I am trying to change so that my daughter does not end up making the same mistakes as our previous women. I've been a princess all my life, and being a princess is still a big part of my life. My childhood dream was of a great whipped cream-like dress and the eternal happy love that was part of that...

    The exhibition "Contemporary Capitalist" moves back in time to the 1980s, when Estonia belonged to the USSR, and to the jungle of newly independent Estonia in early 1990s, to Lasnamäe where I grew up. Paradoxically, my first contact with the "paradise" called "capitalism" came with watching the Finnish TV and with the first "foreign" things I received from Finland in the 1980s. I have a very clear memory of my first banana, tutti-frutti chewing gum, tic-tac candy, and the advertisements and series running on Finnish TV. Inevitably, there was an unbreachable divide between myself and "paradise", which led me...