#KreenholmMurals

2021

It is a collaborative project with a local group of young people (17-18 years old) ‘Art Revolutionaries’. Together with them, I have produced several murals in Narva (Estonia), based on the selected textile designs, which were created at the local textile mill Kreenholm before its closure. The project had two purposes: one is to make their home town more attractive to the local people and visitors, another – to celebrate the local heritage and histories by making them visible as unique murals in the areas, where former workers of the mills still live. Through this project, I hoped to introduce local young people to the histories and heritage they should owe and could have access to.

The designs where selected from an archive of Narva Museum as part of an educational workshop for the young people. Whatever information you could get about each design, we wrote it on the wall for each mural. Accidentally, it happened that one of the selected designs was created by my mother, one of the designer at the mill in the past. In my ongoing project Mapping My Mother I have been already working with one of her designs.