Exhibition opening at Copper Leg Art Residency
On Thursday 6th March 2025
5pm-8pm
Here at Copper Leg, we continue to wonder with our artists. Abscission, which originates from the Latin abscissio, meaning “to cut off,” represents shedding the old to make space for new growth. What can we make room for in the process of cutting off? We invite you to enter a space of discovery, where ideas of growth, transformation, and renewal unfold naturally.
” By emphasizing the manual function of hand-sewing cut pieces of my clothes, my project is a subjective response that asks the question, “How do you photosynthesize?”
The sculpture installation Abscission, and the non-binary short story How Do You Photosynthesize? explores plant biology and examines our human experience by navigating our connection to the environment through the developmental perspective of plants.
The process of photosynthesis is one way to integrate psychology and botany to determine more about plants. The human psyche goes through growth processes that lead to healing, that we can also see in the plant world. We can learn how we treat relationships as transforming, in order to more thoroughly understand stages of decay and renewal. It promotes how the methodology in breaking down materials has emotional connotations beyond the growth, healing and separation that affects the significance of both human and plant cycles. “
-Sarah Noonan about their work.
Sarah Noonan (She/They, b.1997) is from Prince Edward Island, Canada and is a multidisciplinary artist based in Tallinn, Estonia. The innocent appearance and unrefined hand-sewing of their own clothes as material, often collides with their sensitive voice that raises haunting perspectives on what is sentimental and unstable.
Through sculpture installation they explore psychological and emotional states that are poetic, oneiric, and non-gender specific. They consider our world today by investigating with an idiosyncratic viewpoint, what connects co-existing worlds.
Sarah Noonan received a Masters degree in Contemporary Art from the Estonian Academy of Arts (2024) and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Mount Allison University (2019).
Poster/header art: Sarah Noonan
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Neljapäeval, 6. märtsil 2025
17-20
Sarah Noonani ABSCISSION
Jätkame Vaskjala Loomeresidetuuris kunstnikega imetlemist. Abscission, mis on pärit ladinakeelsest sõnast abscissio, mis tähendab “ära lõikama”, esindab vana mahavalamist, et teha ruumi uuele kasvu. Mida saame lõikamise protsessis vabastada? Kutsume teid astuma avastuse ruumi, kus kasvu,
transformatsiooni ja uuenduse ideed avanevad loomulikult.
” Minu projekt on subjektiivne vastus küsimusele „Kuidas sa fotosünteesid?”, rõhutades käsitsi õmmeldud kangatükkide lõikamise ja ühendamise füüsilist protsessi.
Skulptuuriinstallatsioon Abstsissioon ning lühijutt Kuidas sa fotosünteesid? uurivad taimede bioloogiat ning inimkogemust, luues seoseid meie keskkonna ja taimede arenguprotsesside vahel.
Fotosünteesi protsess pakub võimalust ühendada psühholoogia ja botaanika, et paremini mõista nii taimi kui ka inimesi. Inimese psüühika läbib kasvuprotsesse, mis viivad tervenemiseni – sarnaselt taimedele. See uurib, kuidas me mõtestame suhteid läbi muutumise ning kuidas lagunemise ja uuestisünni etapid mõjutavad nii inimese kui ka taime elutsüklite tähendust.”
-Sarah enda tööst
Plakat/päis kunst: Sarah Noonan