KIHNU NAINE

In 1973/74 Mark Soorosar made the documentary “Kihnu Naine” (Kihnu’s women) in Kihnu, an island of 16.4Km2 located in the south of Estonia. In 2019 I visited it and this was the starting point for the draiong project developed. The work is a reflection on memory and the repetition of images in their different formats. From the frames of the documentary by Mark Soorosar, a series of drawings was created on different paper formats, respecting the proportions of the original frames. It is the repetition of the act of drawing and the accumulation of images, that creates a space of connection with the drawing object. There is also a transition from a linear narrative to a flat narrative - where all images are immediately visible - and a transition from a video format to the drawing format, which gives a new dimension to the work presented. You can also find a third passage, which happens through time, the recorded moment comes back to live in the present through the action of drawing. From the ethnographic point of view, this path starts to act on the work collected by the ethnographers, through creating a second layer or a deconstruction of the ethnographic project itself through the creation of a new intimacy with the image.