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Darja Popolitova, Witchcraft for Digital Image (2021). Installation view. Image courtesy the artist + Hobusepea Gallery, Tallinn.
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Darja Popolitova, I’ve Created this Jewel for You Myself (2021). Installation view. Image courtesy the artist + Hobusepea Gallery, Tallinn.
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Darja Popolitova, I’ve Created this Jewel for You Myself (2021). Installation view. Image courtesy the artist + Hobusepea Gallery, Tallinn.
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Darja Popolitova, Antropos Hapticos C21 (2021). Installation view. Image courtesy the artist + Hobusepea Gallery, Tallinn.
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Darja Popolitova, I’ve Created this Jewel for You Myself (2021). Installation view. Image courtesy the artist + Hobusepea Gallery, Tallinn.
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Darja Popolitova, Intimacy Trigger (2021). Installation view. Image courtesy the artist + Hobusepea Gallery, Tallinn.
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Darja Popolitova, Linguo Booster (2021). Installation view. Image courtesy the artist + Hobusepea Gallery, Tallinn.
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Darja Popolitova, Importance Booster (2021). Installation view. Image courtesy the artist + Hobusepea Gallery, Tallinn.
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Darja Popolitova, TACTILITE: STONE THAT TICKLES THE GAZE (2021). Exhibition view. Image courtesy the artist + Hobusepea Gallery, Tallinn.
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Darja Popolitova, TACTILITE: STONE THAT TICKLES THE GAZE (2021). Exhibition view. Image courtesy the artist + Hobusepea Gallery, Tallinn.
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Darja Popolitova, TACTILITE: STONE THAT TICKLES THE GAZE (2021). Exhibition view. Image courtesy the artist + Hobusepea Gallery, Tallinn.
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Darja Popolitova, TACTILITE: STONE THAT TICKLES THE GAZE (2021). Performance view. Image courtesy the artist + Hobusepea Gallery, Tallinn.
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Ritual, magic & the cultural life of jewellery with the fictional worlds of Darja Popolitova

, 16 August 2021
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Tactilite: Stone that Tickles the Gaze, a solo exhibition by Darja Popolitova, is on at Tallinn’s Hobusepea Gallery, running August 5 to 30.

Darja Popolitova, I’ve Created this Jewel for You Myself (2021). Installation view. Image courtesy the artist + Hobusepea Gallery, Tallinn.

With installation and video elements, the show animates the jewellery work of Popolitova with narrative and myth, centring around a fictitious witch character named Seraphita. As noted in the press release, Popolitova’s work highlights jewellery as “powerful wearable symbols,” acting as conduits for “gift-giving rituals, tactile moments, personal memories.”**

Darja Popolitova’s Tactilite: Stone that Tickles the Gaze, is on at Hobusepea Gallery, Tallinn, running August 5 to 30, 2021.

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