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Sedna<\/h1>\n

Paintings – Kairi Orgusaar
\nVideo projection on painting – Erki Kannus
\n2019<\/p>\n

A collaboration project between two artists, Kairi Orgusaar and Erki Kannus, \u201cSedna\u201d is a 6-part series of images inspired by Arctic mythology, specifically the force known as Sedna. The exhibit combines painting with video projection, resulting in ever-changing, living pictures. A female figure slowly moving in a dark, abstract scenery, evocative of a long winter night, aglow with Aurora Borealis \u2013 though the artists have never been in the Far North before, they\u2019ve captured the likeness of what they found it in their mind\u2019s eye.
\nSedna, of course, has many names and many guises \u2013 some call her Arnaqquassaaq, or Sanna, Arnapkapfaaluk, Sassuma Arnaa, Nerrivik, Nuliajuk, Tak\u00e1nakaps\u00e2luk\u2026
\nLikewise, her story is told differently by various narrators, but some aspects remain constant: that of universal femininity \u2013 of the power to give birth. Rebellion, passion, anger and vengeance, oneness with nature, the will to live, dark depths of the ocean \u2013 Sedna represents all these things and more.
\nShe was a girl who disobeyed her father. She refused all men and married a monster instead. She gave life to ancestors of nations, and to the creatures of the sea. She perished, drowned, her fingers chopped off by her father, yet survives as a force to be reckoned with. Like Life itself, she endures against all odds, and her strength lies in flexibility.<\/td>\n