Maria Kapajeva : Dream is Wonderful, Yet Unclear

May 7th - Thursday, 6.30pm online book launch reminder

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We hope you will join us for a free online event/get-together to mark the launch of Maria Kapajeva's new publication Dream is Wonderful, Yet Unclear. To take part you just have to press the link below  – no registration is needed. The event will be happening live on 7 May starting from 6.30pm, so feel free to drop in. There will be an opportunity to chat with Maria about her work and hear from the publisher about how the book was put together. This exhibition and book launch was organised as part of A Woman’s Work, a project funded by Creative Europe to examine the nature of women’s labour through photography, and our own Contemporary Women’s Practice season.

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First limited edition of 600
Silk-screen printed clothbound on a softcover with flaps
Open spine Swiss binding
304 pages, 170 x 240 mm
244 visuals (photographs, cutouts and archival materials)
Published April 2020
ISBN 978-9934-8748-2-6
All book images credit: Milda Books

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About the Book

Dream is Wonderful, Yet Unclear is tri-lingual publication – with texts in Estonian, Russian and English – from Milda Books, designed by Jaan Evart. It features contributions from Liisa Kaljula and Philipp Dorl. The project was supported by the Cultural Endowment of Estonia, British Council in Estonia, A Woman’s Work/ Creative Europe Programme of the European Union and Gallery of Photography Ireland.

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Artist’s Bio: Maria Kapajeva is an Estonian artist, who works in London. She received a BA in Photography from The University for the Creative Arts, Farnham and an MA in Photographic Studies from The University of Westminster, London. Her work was internationally exhibited, including most recently: Latvian Museum of Photography (2019), CBS Digital Art Space (Denmark, 2019), RIBOCA Biennial (Latvia, 2018), Kaunas Photography Gallery (Lithuania, 2018), Narva Art Residency (Estonia, 2017), WOAK Gallery (Poland, 2017), Detroit Oloman Gallery (USA, 2017). Her video works have been shown at Luminocity Festival (Canada, 2018), NexT Film Festival (Romania, 2017) and Berlin Feminist Film Week (2016). In 2016 she received a Gasworks & Triangle Network Fellowship to work at Kooshk Residency in Tehran. Kapajeva’s first artist book You can call him another man, published by Kaunas Photography Gallery, was shortlisted for Aperture Photobook Award 2018.
For more see: www.mariakapajeva.com