Prick of a Daisy

Anna Mari Liivrand

At ARS Factory, Tallinn, Estonia

September 29 — October 16, 2021

Photography by Roman-Sten Tõnissoo

Prick of a Daisy is an exhibition about rituals, objects, ornaments and anxieties that structure our everyday activities.
 
The pandemic-related quarantines have created a situation where interruptions in everyday practices make it impossible for people to define the flow of time and the emerging gaps in perceiving time cause anxiety. There is a lack of rituals that would help structuring and creating time, interpersonal relationships and perceiving daily changes. Similarly to rituals, ornaments contextualize time as well. Things embellished by ornaments are elevated to the present moment of time while revealing more complex reference systems.
 

Exhibited artworks point out the rituals in daily life, reflecting how small everyday routine activities delineate time while creating moments of pause in it as well as helping to perceive changes taking place in the surrounding environment. For instance, there are motifs of capitula of the mutating plants as the result of Fukushima nuclear catastrophe – the artist has organized these to the patterns inspired by the plant ornaments characteristic to Art Nouveau. This is the way changes are happening around us, as a backdrop of our lives. At the same time, the seemingly romantic plant ornament has a certain threatening effect.
 

The second part of the exhibition includes objects that direct our attention to the rituals in our daily lives. A simple box of candies has become an offertory where the viewer can stop for a moment and leave an offering to the nests of the box.

— ARS Factory 

Anna Mari Liivrand. Prick of a Daisy. Exhibition view. Photo by Roman-Sten Tõnissoo
Anna Mari Liivrand. Prick of a Daisy. Exhibition view. Photo by Roman-Sten Tõnissoo
Anna Mari Liivrand. Prick of a Daisy. Structure for a Pause I. Iron, plywood, black and gold 
paint, brass, graphite and colored pencil on paper, purple and gold ribbons. Photo by Roman-Sten Tõnissoo

Anna Mari Liivrand. Prick of a Daisy. Structure for a Pause I. Detail view. Photo by Roman-Sten Tõnissoo
Anna Mari Liivrand. Prick of a Daisy. Title piece. Iron, plywood, black and gold paint, brass, graphite and colored pencil on paper, glass. Photo by Roman-Sten Tõnissoo

Anna Mari Liivrand. Prick of a Daisy. Title piece detail. Photo by Roman-Sten Tõnissoo

Anna Mari Liivrand. Prick of a Daisy. Title piece detail. Photo by Roman-Sten Tõnissoo

Anna Mari Liivrand. Prick of a Daisy. Exhibition view. Photo by Roman-Sten Tõnissoo
Anna Mari Liivrand. Prick of a Daisy. Exhibition view. Photo by Roman-Sten Tõnissoo

Anna Mari Liivrand. Prick of a Daisy. Exhibition view. Photo by Roman-Sten Tõnissoo
Anna Mari Liivrand. Prick of a Daisy. Exhibition view. Photo by Roman-Sten Tõnissoo
Anna Mari Liivrand. Prick of a Daisy. Rhythm of Clotting Moments. Coffee, cream, nonparelis, bronze. Photo by Roman-Sten Tõnissoo

Anna Mari Liivrand. Prick of a Daisy. Structure for a Pause II. Iron, chocolate candy, glass, paper coaster, purple ribbon. Detail view. Photo by Roman-Sten Tõnissoo

Anna Mari Liivrand. Prick of a Daisy. Exhibition view. Photo by Roman-Sten Tõnissoo

Anna Mari Liivrand. Prick of a Daisy. Exhibition view. Photo by Roman-Sten Tõnissoo


Anna Mari Liivrand. Prick of a Daisy. Exhibition detail. Photo by Roman-Sten Tõnissoo
Anna Mari Liivrand. Prick of a Daisy. Exhibition detail. Photo by Roman-Sten Tõnissoo
Anna Mari Liivrand. Prick of a Daisy. Evening Curves I & II. Graphite and colored pencil on paper, plywood, black paint, glass, tin. Photo by Roman-Sten Tõnissoo

Anna Mari Liivrand. Prick of a Daisy. Evening Curves I & II. Graphite and colored pencil on paper, plywood, black paint, glass, tin. Detail view. Photo by Roman-Sten Tõnissoo

Anna Mari Liivrand. Prick of a Daisy. Evening Curves I. Graphite and colored pencil on paper, plywood, black paint, glass, tin. Detail view. Photo by Roman-Sten Tõnissoo
Anna Mari Liivrand. Prick of a Daisy. Exhibition detail. Photo by Roman-Sten Tõnissoo
Anna Mari Liivrand. Prick of a Daisy. Exhibition detail. Photo by Roman-Sten Tõnissoo