The Great Crossing & The Talking Carrot

“Curiously, in Pärn’s graphic work, the depiction of relations between men and women reveals a fleshy, immediate, almost tactile eroticism, unparalleled in Estonian art. /—/ As an author, Priit Pärn is brutally honest and politically incorrect: the woman appears as an object of male pleasure – akin to good food, a comfortable place to rest, or professional recognition. /—/ In his graphic works, one can discern a longing – unmasked by the ‘mandatory subtleties’ of Soviet art – a desire for the ‘attributes’ of a woman, driven to the point of grotesque exaggeration.” – Risoomja alfabeedi algus: Priit Pärn ja tema looming. Kumu catalogue.