Kris Lemsalu

Give Us A Song, 2022167.6 x 139.7 x 226.1cm38000 USD

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ceramics, textiles, baby grand piano, wooden chair, brick, paper, metalMargot SamelNew York City

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The artwork depicts a colorful clown-like figure seated at a grand piano, creating a whimsical and surreal scene. The figure is dressed in vibrant, patterned clothing featuring geometric shapes and bold colors, contrasting with the dark wooden piano. The composition draws the viewer's attention to the figure's expressive posture and playful demeanor, suggesting a lighthearted and imaginative interpretation of the traditional piano performance. The artist's use of vivid hues, distorted proportions, and unconventional subject matter reflects a playful and unconventional artistic style, inviting the viewer to engage with the work's playful and thought-provoking nature. ...

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Artist

Kris Lemsalu

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. ...