Jaanus Samma

Jaanus Samma

BornNationalityBased In
N/AEstonianN/A
Biography

Jaanus Samma's body of work includes photos, installations and videos with topics that have been grounded in the study of urban space and the subjective experiences of it. Over the years his interests have moved towards gender studies investigating into the representation of male sexuality and ways of portraying this by artistic means. His fields of interest include history, ethnography and museology as well as the narratives used at the intersection of the three. In queering national heritage, he has found ways of broadening the perspectives on identity formation and offered alternative ways of contextualising the past. Samma’s practice relies on fieldwork – interviews and archive research – to produce subjective artistic output based on his findings. ...

Selected Artworks
Beer mugs
Lepvalts’s Kalevipoeg
Jaanus Samma
Lepvalts’s Kalevipoeg, 2023
62 x 96cm
Lepvalts’s Kalevipoeg III
Jaanus Samma
Lepvalts’s Kalevipoeg III, 2023
62 x 96cm
Northern Lights
Jaanus Samma
Northern Lights, 2024
173 x 107cm
Gallery Representation
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