Daughter of the Huntsman (Jahimehe tütar) is a collaboration between me and my mother, who is also an art critic. The exhibition centres on my maternal grandfather — a huntsman and amateur photographer who lost his home and parents during the Second World War. Through his archive of hunting photographs, dating from the late 1950s to the mid-1980s, my mother and I — as daughter and granddaughter, but also as art critic and artist — examine the traumatic event that shaped his life, as well as the self-defence mechanisms that enabled him to live with it.

Together, we have created a layered narrative based on facts, memories, folklore, art historical analysis, sound, photographs, and objects. Within this narrative, we take an intentionally ambivalent position: we are both participants and observers, seekers of truth and those who complicate it. Above all, we are searching for a resolution — much like the daughters of huntsmen in Native American legends.