A selection of video works on view in the exhibition
2025___Earth House
From June 25 to July 8, I was one of the participants/builders of a rammed earth workshop that took place at Savvaļa in Latvia as part of the RuralArtConnect project. The workshop was led by rammed earth practitioners Kaarel Kuusk and Maria Luiga (kuidas.works) from Estonia, with the process coordinated by artist Andris Eglītis. The […]
2025___LOOTUS LOODUS
You’re not the author, yet this story cannot happen without you. You hope that in the end, everything will turn out fine, but at the same time, you fear disappointment – that nothing will come of it.But what is this something? How can something also be nothing? How does meaning arise? What is beauty? There […]
2025___How Do You Find a Lion That Has Swallowed You?
We all have a shadow, or does the shadow have us? Carl Jung turned this question into a riddle when he asked: “How do you find a lion that has swallowed you?” The project was a systematic facing, mapping and healing of shadows over 10 month period. Through automatic drawing, I entered memories connected to […]
2024___Magic Is Sometimes Very Close to Nothing At All
Magic Is Sometimes Very Close to Nothing At All was an exhibition about the loss caused by a great flood, coming to terms with this loss, letting go of the previous world order and building a new world from the ruins of the past life. The curator of the exhibition was Siim Preiman. How to […]
2024___Trail Baltic: trass.levila.ee
The year was 2020. The debates around Rail Baltic divided Estonia in two. On one side were people who supported the idea of traveling by train to Berlin or Riga. They argued that trains were more environmentally friendly than cars, and that Estonia needed this railway for progress. On the other side were those who […]
2023___Trail Baltic Documentary
“The documentary film follows one woman’s journey along the future corridor of the Rail Baltic railway. Attempting to livestream her entire 213 km trek, artist Hanna Samoson encounters people whose lives will soon become inseparably linked to the new railroad. Through hope, humor, and the pain of loss, the film reveals how those affected by […]
2022___Time Loser
How do you begin—or finish—an artwork when time always seems to be slipping away? Time Loser is, on one hand, the one who wakes to a day that’s already slipping away—running behind before she’s even begun. On the other hand, Time Loser is also the one who has touched a space beyond the illusion of […]
2022___Light My Mind
Music video for Vera Vice (Ave Vellesalu & Helen Västrik) In memoriam Vilma Keer (24.08.1927 – 26.03.2022)
2022___2222
After seeing a dream where the self becomes one with the being on one of the 2222 islands belonging to Estonia, Samoson treks, ice skates, and walks though water to reach islands across the surreal and glacial landscapes of Estonia in winter looking for her dream. As she is accompanied by demon-faced companions, the landscape […]