EKA graafika töökoda (B409)
Start Date:
17.04.2026
Start Time:
11:30
End Date:
17.04.2026
The peer-review of PhD student Maria Erikson’s exhibition “Imprint of Vulnearbility” will take place on Friday, April 17th, 11:30–13:00, at EKA Printmaking Studio (B409) and via Zoom. The event is in English.
The exhibition is a creative project of Erikson’s practice-based artistic research Matrix, Trace, and Feminist Possibilities: Reimagining Printmaking as a Space of Material Agency and Embodied Knowledge.
Reviewers: Dr. Daina Pupkevičiūtė (Lithuania) and Sveta Grigorjeva
Supervisors: Dr. Elo-Hanna Seljamaa (University of Tartu) and Jaana Kokko (PhD candidate Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland)
“Every heart is broken!” writes Rick Dolphijn, framing the wound not as something to be healed but lived. Maria Erikson’s first artistic component, Imprint of Vulnerability, explores the wounding inherent in printmaking processes while drawing connections between the female body and geological endurance in the context of the matrixial sphere.
Focusing on female experience and the human condition, Erikson’s practice explores contact and materiality between human and non-human bodies through methodology of print and process-driven inquiry. Working across printmaking, sculpture, and installation, she explores emergence of material knowledge through their agentic capacities and bodiliness. Materials such as stone, gum arabic, and cheesecloth are no longer merely tools but carriers of meaning, enacting imprinting, pressure, and separation.
Imprint of Vulnerability is a duo exhibition with Mari Männa, curated by Madli Ljutjuk (Tallinn Art Hall), and is on view at Tallinn City Gallery until April 12th, 2026.