June, 2021
A text based spatial installation in the exhibition “Second Act” curated by Kerly Ritval happening in an empty theatre stage in Viljandi, Estonia.
As part of this collaborative exhibition, I created a text-based spatial installation narrating the experience of visitors by text commands: signs guided the audience through the gallery with seemingly standard instructions—“ Please enter,” “Please turn off your phone”—which slowly unraveled into provocations like “Touch this,” “Think this through”, and abstraction like “Please don’t try to understand this piece, because by the time you do, the unknowing will have proved itself more useful”.
It was an invitation to question institutional behavior and obedience, made in dialogue with the surrounding works and artists.
I was particularly flattered by the mention of Aleksander Metsamärt in the review on the ERR portal:
“In particular, Liisbeth Horn’s tongue-in-cheek labels that throw the viewer into “wait what” moments are to be praised for the overall impression of the exhibition – leaving aside for a moment what is happening specifically on stage – and for their holistic coherence. The spatial installation that runs through the exhibition works as a refreshing humor bomb in a recent social moment, newly liberated from a time pregnant with social norms and rules, whose obvious executional negligence can be part of its multi-layered charm, like tart icing on a cookie cake.”