Hedi Jaansoo: They are there (they are there)
Opening hours: Thursday > Saturday, 14:00-18:00
Former WIELS resident Hedi Jaansoo presents their recent project, They are there (they are there), at AFFILIATE.
Through still lifes, glued-together images, photographing, printing and rephotographing, Jaansoo attends to silences, traces, the uncertainty of persistence, (in)visibility, looking and overlooking.
Opening: Wednesday 08.07.2026, 18:00-21:00
Presentation: 09.07—25.07.2026, Thursday > Saturday, 14:00-18:00
AFFILIATE: rue du Jardin des Olives 3 Olivetenhof, 1000 Brussels
Free entrance
Courtesy of the artist
Hedi Jaansoo (b. 1989) is an Estonian artist and photographer based in Tallinn. She graduated from the Estonian Academy of Arts with an MA in Contemporary Art (2018) and a BA in Photography (2014), and also studied at the Bergen Academy of Art and Design (2012–13). Her work attends to fragilities, weaknesses, tensions and beauties, among other – often small – things. Her works combine photography, flowers, non-functional jewellery, unfinished thoughts and uncertain decisions, (be)longing and acceptance. A recurring thread throughout her practice is a sustained attention to women, grandmothers, gentle acts of resistance and near-invisibility. In 2023, she was an artist-in-residence at WIELS, Brussels. She currently manages the Estonian Union of Photography Artists (FOKU) and FOKU Gallery.