Laura Põld (b. 1984) is an Estonian interdisciplinary artist who combines sculpture with traditional craft techniques such as ceramics and rug-making.
Drawing on mythology, folktale and environmental history, Põld foregrounds interspecies entanglements and themes centred on culture and community. Põld’s site-sensitive art interacts with its spatial context, often exploring practices of nurturing, shelter and survival in our unstable contemporary reality.
Her installation at HAM consists of ceramic sculptures and four wool pile handmade tapestries.
In Vallisaari Põld creates large scale ceramic tree trunks, whose branches shelter mushroom-like forms and operate as water vessels for birds.
This exhibition was produced in collaboration with Phileas – The Austrian Office for Contemporary Art. Laura Põld has been supported by: Cultural Endowment of Estonia and Embassy of Estonia in Helsinki.
Artwork locations: HAM Helsinki Art Museum and Vallisaari Island
Photo: Albert Kerstna