TANJA MURAVSKAJA

1978 Pärnu. Lives in Tallinn

Positions. Digital colour print, 2006
Once we shall win after all! Video, 6 min, 2007

Tanja Muravskaja has studied photography at the Estonian Academy of Arts and Westminster University in London. She is skilfully exploiting the rhetoric of fashion photography as the main visual tool in her art projects. She is also exploiting the ideology of fashion – the ideology of dreams and desires – as the central object of criticism and analysis in her practice.
Consequences and Proposals presents her photo series Positions, where she asked younger generation Estonian artists to pose nude, using the national flag of Estonia as their only accessory. The photos are accompanied by a video where the populist slogan from the period of Singing Revolution, Once we shall win after all!, is repeated by people from the street more than 15 years later. Once we shall win after all! – is it myth or reality? What have Estonians won? And what did they loose?







Photos: Reimo Võsa-Tangsoo 2007 © Center for Contemporary Arts, Estonia