Katerina Rothberg Exhibition

Proudly presented by the Tallinn Fringe Festival.
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Genre: Exhibition
Language: -
Duration: 18.8-26.8
Tickets: Free

Katerina Rothberg is an artist from Tallinn, currently studying in Estonian Academy of Arts. Topics that she handles in her works are- human body, fears, instincts, boundaries set for women, social norms and many more. The main media that she works with is photo and video.

More works at www.katerinarothberg.com

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Video installation

Video and editing: Katerina Rothberg
Movement: Lidia Priz
Music Design: Misha Panfilov

The video was made in collaboration with choreographer Lidia Priz and depicts experiments in which I explore the connections between architectural objects, the body and gravity. Gravity is the interaction of bodies with different masses. I use montage to manipulate reality, but in the end I show what inevitably happens to every body - the fall.

In my work, I ask myself: “What is an objective image? Watching this video, can I say for sure that everything happens exactly like this? Is this true? "Thinking about this topic, I come to the conclusion that the only objective reality is fundamental mathematics and therefore physics.

METAMORPHOSIS
Photo series

You look very good. Have you lost some weight?
I wouldn’t say you had a baby at all…
Your hands are too hairy, something needs to be done about it…

As a woman, I have heard all this and more many times in my life, which has made me think about the shape of our bodies and what standards we set and accept. During my project I wanted to document the variability of the body and abstract from hair, distortions, scars and find a new interesting form in them. During the experiment I also grew body hair and tried to observe how I felt about it. It was often difficult to get rid of the feeling that everyone in a public place was looking at me as if I was too hairy. In the end I couldn’t stand it and removed everything. I felt vulnerable, insecure, and sensitive…