Tallinn – Fotografiska Tallinn (Feng Li)

Following on from Shepard Fairey’s Photo Synthesis (which is on reflection a really rather good name for an exhibition), the next exhibition I meandered to at Fotografiska was photography by Feng Li.

It’s all very lovely, but I didn’t really find much to engage with here, although I like the collection of street art from around China. This felt to me like one of those exhibitions that would perhaps have a deeper meaning if shown in forty or fifty years time, being something of a snapshot of the era. There are some powerful street scene images of New York from the 1970s and 1980s that now seem to encapsulate the period rather well, but I couldn’t really get the irreverent excitement here.

I think it’s all a bit decadent for me, just a bit too jazzy. Unfortunately, there was no-one else visiting this exhibition for me to watch and see how they were engaging with the photos. It’s a nicely laid out space though, the lighting is at an appropriate level and there was information about the artist and the concept. But as I’m not an art critic, that’s as much as I can usefully put (and claiming any usefulness might be pushing things). I suspect that Bev and Susanna would have liked this.