In Venice after visiting the Pavilion of Montenegro don’t leave immediately but go upstairs and visit the Pavilion of Estonia, too. Liina Siib’s project (A Woman Takes Little Place) consists of a six rooms installation in an apartment-like environment. In other rooms there are photo and video installations exploring various topics from femininity and social space to different representation of women in the contemporary society. She also examines feminine jobs and prostitution. The title work of the exhibition that is a photo installation captures women of different ages and social status at their places of work.

Recently I worked on a project – a completely different area, nothing to do with art – that made me think what women need to do in life. What are we here for? In the pavilion of Estonia those pictures show women with hard jobs, nothing feminine; a butcher shouldn’t be a woman in my opinion for instance. I can see these sorts of faces every day on the metro in Budapest. You can see on their faces that they gave up something.  Probably long time ago they all had a dream of being someone’s princess, or just to have a beautiful life and enjoy being a woman. Where are those dreams now?

Liina Siib: A Woman Takes Little Place, Pavilion of Estonia, Venice,
photo by Török Viktória