Liina Siib (b. 1963) is a visual artist who started out studying graphic art and later entered photography on the master’s degree level. Her subject matter ranges from femininity, social space to everyday practices and patterns of people’s lives during work and leisure time. Siib herself says that being an amateur sociologist and anthropologist is her right as an artist. Even her most minimalist works become captivatingly meaningful – every gesture is a direct comment on the situations that surround artists as people.
At the last Estonian Photographic Art Fair, Siib displayed found material from her personal archive – enlargements of rolls of film shot while visiting Kyiv as a student in the 1980s. The value of these tourist snaps is now something completely different in light of the events of 2014. This time, Siib is exhibiting two videos from this year – “Coffee Machine” and “Orbs”, where we see two people making coffee and stroking a model of the world. Thoughts drift to the self-evident nature of a cup of coffee, its origin, a man’s dark and woman’s snow-white skin, home, travel…
