Kris Lemsalu

Bride, Builder, Businesswoman and Baby, 2018Price on Request

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rocks, textiles, metal stands, cherry trees, strobe lights Margot SamelNew York City

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This contemporary art installation features a visually striking composition of contrasting elements. The dark, moody color palette, punctuated by splashes of bold red and blue, creates a sense of tension and unease. The artwork incorporates found objects like rocks, branches, and weathered fabrics, giving it a raw, organic feel. The surreal, dreamlike arrangement of these elements suggests a narrative or symbolic meaning, hinting at themes of decay, transformation, or the human condition. The overall impression is one of a dystopian, post-apocalyptic landscape, inviting the viewer to ponder the artist's commentary on the complex relationship between nature and human influence. ...

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Artist

Kris Lemsalu

B.1985, Estonian

Kris Lemsalu’s practice is filled with eccentric colours, shamans, talismans, kitsch imagery and materials such as clothing, food and animal pelts. Working in installation, sculpture and performance, the Estonian artist’s works deny categorization and invite ritualistic catharsis of life and death, beauty and pain. Mimicking the formlessness of life itself, her works and performances transcend structure into absurdist mix of textures and materials; with cheap rubber bags being attached to precious porcelain, a toothbrush burning between the artist’s lips or a chicken-eggs-chandelier hanging between her legs. Lemsalu’s exquisite use of her body as a material alongside the strangeness of her inanimate objects blends the very distinction between herself, her art and life, more broadly. Fairy tales and folklore, fantasy and reality become indistinguishable in the artist’s universe of kitsch and absurdity. With no beginning or end, Lemsalu’s practice is a metamorphosis in action. ...