Urmas Lüüs

Thoughts about the art work:

I started series "Yet Another Example of the Porousness of Certain Borders", while cleaning my grandmother´s house after she passed away. Going through hundreds of objects, collected within 82 years, felt like archaeological fieldwork. What to do with all those things, that you don´t want to keep, but also don´t dare to throw away? Piece by piece I started to deconstruct those objects to turn them into artworks. This picture frame got casted into liquid iron.

Describe the process:

I am a hunter-gatherer. My studio is a mess. Some people compare it with the cabinet of curiosities, some people with a scrapyard. I almost never start from the blank page. Those objects are my humus, my studio is my alchemical laboratory where one object is turned into another.

About the artist:

Urmas Lüüs is an Estonian contemporary craft artist and writer, who wonders around between the foggy boarders of visual arts and contemporary theatre. He combines installations, performance, sound art, words, video, photography, contemporary craft and sculpture into one big breathing organism. His studio is located in the center of Tallinn Old Town. He is a lecturer at the Estonian Academy of Arts, mostly concentrating on topics of space, interdisciplinary approach, performing body, installation art and technological theater. His writing on the topics of art, design, theatre and contemporary craft for different cultural magazines, journals and editors.