Holger Kilumets

Holger Kilumets (b. 1992) is an Estonian lens based artist currently living and working in London, United Kingdom. He is about to earn his degree in BA Photography and Video Art at University of Bedfordshire. In 2013, Kilumets was selected as one of the artists of the Showcase programme at MK Gallery and had his first solo exhibition at MK Gallery's Project Space.

Kodak Anniverssary Beach Ball, 2014

Study of a Female Nude I, 2014 Maps & Territories Maps & Territories is an elaborate exploration of the meaning of representation through a series of slightly disparate images, designed to relate to each other through the notion of free association. Borrowing elements from the history of art, photographic practice and advertising imagery, the series attempts to reveal the fragility of the mechanisms that sustain representations.

Reference Targets, 2014

Trichromatic Vision Model, 2014

Pruning, 2014 Representation, by its very definition, can’t be the thing it represents. Representations don’t merely recreate existing objects or elements of the phenomenal world; they beautify, improve upon, and universalize them. As a result, things get caught up in simulacrum, spectacle and fetish, creating a fictional world, a plastic postmodernity of illusions, appearances and images in which there is no capacity for a non-mediated relationship to reality.

Atlas, 2014

Mimicry, 2014

Palm Trees, 2014 In the contemporary world more and more things first become visible to us via the images we see of them. There is a shift towards the process of the replacement of an object by its image and representations in the form of photographs have become the main devices through which we perceive and interpret the world around us. Because of this it seems vital to face the fundamental questions about the act of representation, its influence on our perception and understanding of reality and the habitus, modalities and the productive capacity of it.