Art Duo LMEO Explores Urban Space Through a Newcomer's Gaze at Tallinn Central Market
The international exhibition 'Everything Is Just Something to Get Through' by duo LMEO opens at Keskpuur gallery in Tallinn Central Market, questioning the viewer's position and urban systems through sculptures, installations, and performances.
The Keskpuur gallery, located in Tallinn Central Market, is hosting the first international exhibition of the art duo LMEO, titled "Everything Is Just Something to Get Through" (Kõik on lihtsalt miski, millest tuleb läbi saada). Originally from Montreal and now based in Tallinn, the duo merges their individual artistic practices into a collaborative approach centered on sculpture, installation, and performance.
The exhibition is developed through the attentive gaze of newcomers, challenging the viewer's position and relationship to urban systems. It highlights how public infrastructure can function or be perceived as choreography. Through flickering lights, industrial compositions, and everyday imagery, the show reflects on the banal structures shaping modern life and reimagines them as theatrical performances. LMEO invites viewers to experience the environment with the heightened awareness of a guest or outsider and to contemplate how mental presence and emotional connection can inhabit ordinary spaces, enabling communication across distances and offering ways to cope with grief and loss.
Artists Lilie-Maude Dobelle and Erik-Olivier Thériault have been collaborating since October 2022. After establishing an alternative gallery space in Halifax, Canada, they moved to Estonia to pursue master's degrees in contemporary art at the Estonian Academy of Arts (EKA). The duo views collaboration as a meeting point of shared artistic vision and opposes the idea of sole authorship.
The exhibition runs until July 26.
