Permission to grow up

Artists Kristi Paap, Kaire Rannik, Ketli Tiitsar, Maria Valdma have all graduated the metal art department of Estonian Academy of Arts. They have been working and exhibiting together since 1996 (1996-2005 together with Berit Teeäär in a form of group F.F.F.F.). They use a large variety of materials to create jewellery, objects of size ranging from small to medium, photography and installations. Their work has been shown in exhibitions in Estonia, Belgium, Denmark, Poland, Russia, Yugoslavia, Holland, Lithuania, Hungary, Finland, Sweden, USA, China and Ireland .

Permission to Grow Up

People carry along with them family photos, rings and other things of sentimental value, even crucifixes that connect them with beloved ones. These intimate things help us to maintain our inner self-confidence so that we could handle changes that life places on our path and carry on.
This project was inspired by the childhood photographs of four participating artists – the captured moments, various situations and activities from the past years.
Installation consists of jewellery fixed to towels and cloth characteristic to the 1970s-1980s and of photos that inspired each particular piece of jewellery.
”This project is an attempt to recall everyone’s personality and individual thoughts over the years in order to get acquainted with oneself in captured time. We also try to grasp the best flashes of those childhood memories, turn them into jewellery and make peace with the rest, “the artists told.


The exhibition coordinator : Mia Maljojoki