Outhouse by the Church

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What can a hundred-year-old Estonian church?s toilet and the public restroom of Flaminio Railway Station in Rome have in common? The answer is in Jaanus Samma?s 'Outhouse by the Church'. On the occasion of his first solo show in Rome at Nomas Foundation?the first Italian exhibition after representing Estonia at 2015 Venice Biennale?, curated by Eugenio Viola, the Baltic artist has been researching on the borders between public and private space in an environment such as public toilets. Tackling gender and sociological issues, Samma works with an archival approach, documenting the many writings the artist found on the Flaminio public restroom walls and showing the actual remnants of Kodavere?s St Michael?s Church?s outhouse.0The texts, especially written for the publication, by writers and poets such as Travis Jeppesen and Andreas Kalkun, take the conversation outside the canonical boundaries of visual art