{"id":2025,"date":"2022-11-07T15:44:19","date_gmt":"2022-11-07T13:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/raplakunst.eu\/?p=2025"},"modified":"2022-11-07T15:45:47","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T13:45:47","slug":"its-lonely-in-the-metaverse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/raplakunst.eu\/?p=2025&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"It’s Lonely in the Metaverse"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Friday, 11th of November at 6pm a group exhibition by Egle Ehtjen, Kelli Gedvil, Kristen R\u00e4stas and Sten Saarits \u2018It’s Lonely in the Metaverse\u2019 will be opened at Rapla County Centre for Contemporary Art. The exhibition remains open until 11th of December, Tue\u2013Sun 3\u20136pm. A bus will go to the exhibition\u2019s opening from Tallinn at 17:15 and will drive back to Tallinn at 21:00. Register for the bus by writing to kelli [dot] gedvil [at] artun [dot] ee<\/a><\/p>\n

Four artists will create an audiovisual participatory exhibition in the hall of the Rapla County Centre for Contemporary Art, exploring the soul of the \u2018metaverse\u2019, a recently popular medium that uses various spatial and virtual reality technologies. Platforms for virtual worlds are a hot topic both in the crypto world and, increasingly, in the \u2018normal world\u2019, through \u2018fear-of-missing-out\u2019 advertising campaigns promising new social, investment and entertainment environments on the internet. Behind the exaggerated promises of the future, however, today\u2019s meta-worlds besides their edgy commercial undertones are lonely, not that interactive, and full of digital gambling and collective tokens. \u2018It’s Lonely in the Metaverse\u2019 is the interpretation by the four artists of the significant contrast between the advertising hurricane and the virtual landscapes that fall into its shadow.
\nEgle Ehtjen (b. 1990) is an artist who often combines traditional media such as ink and watercolour with digital manipulation and animation. Previously more concerned with characters and narratives, she has recently been leaning towards abstraction, finding inspiration in nature, the esoteric twilight and things that are hard to put into words. Kelli Gedvil (b. 1994 Viljandi) is an artist who works mainly in installation, video and web-based medium. Her latest exhibitions “4EVER” and “Purifying Your Skin” have explored the behavioral patterns of self-presentation in various virtual communities and how they affect the physical body with emphasising the involvement of the viewer through interactiveness. Kristen R\u00e4stas (b. 1992) is an interdisciplinary artist whose work incorporates video, conceptualism, virtual reality, and mixed media sculpture. His recent projects get inspired by classical landscapes, which the artist attempts to represent through digital technologies, creating artificial natural environments that explore the connections between contemporary human alienation and possible realities reflecting escapism. Sten Saarits (b 1987) is an interdisciplinary artist who works mainly with time basedmedia. Saarits’ installation art practice, which emphasizes repetitions of themes and situations, is characterized by a drive to turn mental spaces into material landscapes to depict the states of mind, typical for the daily endeavors in a modern society, in a new form. His practice revolves around giving focus to hidden, unnoticeable or non-perceivable agencies within our environment.
\nehtjen.ee, stensaarits.ee, kristenrastas.com, kelligedvil.com
\nGraphic design: Henri Kutsar<\/p>\n

The artists would like to thank: Markus Tiitus, Alexei Gordin, Ian-Simon M\u00e4rjama, Hendo Kidron, Leegi Kiis, Marek Gedvil, Tiina V\u00e4ndre, Laura Suur, Anna-Liisa M\u00e4nnik, Ingrid Algma, Ingrid K\u00e4\u00e4ramees, Linda Zupping, J\u00fcri Ruut, Mirko K\u00e4nd, Erko Ever, Kristjan Koskor, Anni Koskor, Katarina Koskor, Ander Koskor, Kennet Lekko, Estonian Academy of Arts<\/p>\n

This exhibition is funded by the Cultural Endowment of Estonia.<\/p>\n

Location: Rapla County Centre for Contemporary Art. Tallinna st 3b (3rd floor of Espak building), Rapla.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Friday, 11th of November at 6pm a group exhibition by Egle Ehtjen, Kelli Gedvil, Kristen R\u00e4stas and Sten Saarits \u2018It’s Lonely in the Metaverse\u2019 will be opened at Rapla County Centre for Contemporary Art. The exhibition remains open until 11th of December, Tue\u2013Sun 3\u20136pm. A bus will go to the exhibition\u2019s opening from Tallinn … Continue reading It’s Lonely in the Metaverse<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2023,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exhibitions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/raplakunst.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/raplakunst.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/raplakunst.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raplakunst.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raplakunst.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2025"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/raplakunst.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2026,"href":"https:\/\/raplakunst.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2025\/revisions\/2026"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raplakunst.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/raplakunst.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raplakunst.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raplakunst.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}