Curator: Francisco Martínez.
Designer: Viktor Gurov
Artists: Anna Škodenko, Evgeny Fedorov, Eléonore de Montesquiou, Francisco Martínez, Sanna Kartau, Varvara & Mar, Viktor Gurov.

This exhibition is inspired by the library left behind in the School n. 1 of Sillamäe, an institution that was closed in 1999. Subsequently, the building hosted the ECOMEN Institute of Economics & Management for seven years before being abandoned.

In Latin, ex libris referred to anything that comes out of the books. In Medieval times, the term started to be used in relation to a book owner’s identification label. Now, the library has been intruded by a series of artists, re-appropriating its materials in a parasitical way.

The books are still present, alas they do not always make sense in the present. Nonetheless, their ideas and aesthetics keep on fermenting otherwise. Burden or delayed gift, the library is available for novel relations of exchange.

But what kind of knowledge is lost when a library disappears? How can we accommodate what does not fit in the present? And what can we learn by looking into the things we left behind?

A minibus Tallinn-Sillamäe-Tallinn is provided to attend the opening, on the 4th of May. To register, please contact: francisco.martinez@tuni.fi & viktor.gurov@artun.ee