KMSKA LATE - Artist talk Lisette Sivard

Lisette Sivard is an Estonian costume designer who makes sculptural, sensory and humoristic installations. She researches the impact of the communistic and totalitairian regime of the Soviet-Union on the vulnerable body of the individual. In KMSKA LATE  we offer special attention to art that focus on well-being. During KMSKA LATE Lisette Sivard will further explain her work. The viewer can discover this young, emerging talent and marvel at the sensory power that emanates from her work: touching is allowed!

Lisette Sivard: “For the work And she saw how the sky opened up, I explored the connection between the personal and the political through my own lived experience and close relationships. I looked empathetically at three generations of women: my grandmothers, mother, aunts, cousins, and myself in Estonia. The first two generations were born and raised under the communist and totalitarian regime of the Soviet Union, in an occupied country, while the third generation, including myself, was born in an independent, democratic, and capitalist country that still bears the marks of the occupation. These two different regimes, along with the period of adjustment and the ongoing influence of the past, have shown me up close how environments and circumstances, as well as past and present power structures, directly shape our personality, individuality, and possibilities—our dreams, our desires, our very being. This is how I reflect on the ways political power games, and the traumas that result from them, influence people’s lives, and how the healing process extends across multiple generations."