Jaanika Peerna: LIGHT MATTER

Part of the EU Month of Culture, this May Hillyer Art Space is partnering with the Embassy of Estonia to present LIGHT MATTER, an exhibition and performance by artist Jaanika Peerna. Peerna will create a room-size drawing installation which will consist of works in varying scale and presence. There will be tiny and large framed drawings as well as sculptural forms made from reflective mylar as well as graphite drawings on mylar.

Artist Performance

Saturday, May 16 at 1pm

Jaanika Peerna's live performance will bring the physical act of drawing in a world of physical limitations into focus. Peerna's approach to drawing is a very physical, whole body experience. 

Her large scale dense surfaces of freehand straight line drawings are made by leaving traces of her body "falling down" with a bundle of pencils and they have the energy of descending liquid matter (water or oil). 

Physicists have been trying to create matter out of light. Jaanika Peerna combines light, Mylar and traces of movement to create works that point towards LIGHT MATTER.