Iris Kivisalu

Porcelain China

Porcelain China by Iris Kivisalu presents the artist’s take on abstract beauty, sensory systems and expressionistic photography, what draws it’s core from classic film photography more than anything. Porcelain China is about stillness, movement, imperfection, feeling - 10 painting like portraits transform the subject into from mere humans into unreal (and ideal). Texture, surface, seeing, believing, dreaming - it’s difficult to summarize the content without pointing to the thoughtful melancholic mood that emanates from the series which gives homage to photographic minimalism from 20th century – an ideal background for creating a timeless perception of work. In 2018 part of Porcelain China series has been published in Vogue Italy, The Guardian, iGNANT and exhibited in The Other Art Fair by Saatchi Art in London, Photo Kyiv and Baltic Centennial in Boston. Iris Kivisalu has studied journalism and sociology which both contribute to her unique style of melancholic beauty often paired with documentary storytelling found mostly in portraits, work with creatives, street photography, but her fashion work is more rare. Iris Kivisalu’s work can mostly be described by a very strong orientation to details through a timeless approach. “I’ve never liked to present straight guidelines for reading my material, it’s important that the viewer’s senses will start painting with the canvas I’ve presented. It’s never about pleasing the mind with simple esthetics, it’s more about layering.”