Credo, quia absurdum – usun,

sest see on mõttetu (Tertullianus)

84x59x5 cm

Property of the artist

AD ABSURDUM

Ad Absurdum is a celebration of illusion, suggesting illusion is the way of communicating, instead of interpretation. This work removes the demand to know what life or human behavior ultimately means by redirecting our focus to the overall symmetries of chaos created by the interaction of the worlds of the present and the past, and the future. Illusion is versatile – all the more so because reason and truth may be hostile to each other, as quest for the meaning can be hostile to human life.

May be here – at this extraordinary biennale site – we are more open to accept the absurd. May be Camus was right after all, believing that by accepting the absurd, we can achieve the greatest extent of our freedom, and that by recognizing no religious or other moral constraints and by revolting against the absurd while simultaneously accepting it as unstoppable, we could possibly be content. May be by embracing illusion, and by always devising new artifices and innovations that give things the appearance of being beautiful, we can become the poets of our lives, we can become alive.

Terence Dee is a practicing visual artist, photographer and teacher based in Tallinn, Estonia. For the first time he held the camera in his hands at the age of 7. After the first attempts in photography, his interest shifted to moving pictures. Thus, his early career kicked off as a director of photography for animations. After a successful debut in Cannes International Film Festival, a door opened for him to the world of media – MTV Europe in 1995, London Weekend Television in 1996, Estonian media publishing company Ajakirjade Kirjastus in 2000. However, his successes followed a major shift in a new direction – he received his B.A. (arts and photography) from Estonian Academy of Arts in 2009, M.A. from Tallinn University in 2014. Today Terence Dee is exhibiting nationally and internationally, most recently Icones Mutantes in Paris art gallery “12 avenues des arts” in 2017.