Displaced Time: 10 Photographs from Restricted Collections

09.09–29.09.2019

Film Archive of the National Archives of Estonia

Installation view from the exhibition Displaced Time: 10 Photographs from Restricted Collections.

 

Film Archive of the National Archives of Estonia (Ristiku 84)
Artist: Aap Tepper
Curator: Annika Toots
Dates: 9.09. – 29.09.2019
Opening times: Mon–Fri 10am – 5pm
Accessible by wheelchair

Tours at the exhibition and the building of Film Archives (Ristiku 84) on 09.09 at 6pm (in Estonian),  24.09 at 3pm (in English). Tour at the former rooms of the restricted collections (Maneeži 2) on 17.09 at 6pm (in Estonian).

The exhibition explores restricted collections that existed in the state archives during the Soviet period and the processes that took place within them. The project focuses on photographic albums which were hidden in these secret restricted collections, and more specifically, the landscape motifs in those albums. This site-specific installation is exhibited in the former prison cell block of the Film Archives’ building.