Nobody Expected There Would Be Much Discussion About It (Window Display)

Synchronic Cinema, Location 1 Window display at When Site Lost the Plot, Amsterdam 2021. From Gorbachev to Vernor Panton, call in to meet Ott Metusala’s grandmother Kirsti, a member of an anonymous design team in the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic. In “Nobody Expected There Would Be Much Discussion About It,” artists Ott and Kirsti Metusala will bring you to the Tallinn Experimental Plant Estoplast, Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic in 1973.Through one-to-one discussions I took the viewer/listener to the year when Estoplast factory production was at its peak moment. In that year they launched more than 30 new designs and altered older models. The discussion on the soviet modernist discourse was based on handmade sketches of lighting fixtures made by Kirsti Metusala. Synchronic Cinema is a series of works with (dis)placed narrators, presented over the duration of 2021. The physical works are shown in the gallery, with online stories appearing on our website. Images by Franzi Mueller Schmidt.