Tarvo Varres is a postconceptual artist, currently developing the concept of the fragile in his work. Revolving around the themes of non-self and non-linear time, his works in photography, video and installations are exploring the everyday, space and memory or nature and light, while considering  questions of the fragmentary, contradictory and the unknown, as in The Shadow of a Flame (2015). He is treating text and language as a limit, bordering the real and the imaginary, in more recent,
text-based installations. An avid reader, he is researching both contemporary and early fiction and philosophy, at times making it part of his work. Varres started exhibiting institutionally in 1991 with the group exhibition Guide to Intronomadism in Tallinn Art Hall; is the recipient of the Young Photographer Award (1992), Annual Award by the Cultural Endowment of Estonia as member of Group T (1996), and was Köler Prize 2018 nominee. He has taught contemporary art and photography as a guest tutor at the Estonian Academy of Arts, in Tallinn and in Tartu Art College. His works are included in the collection of contemporary art in the Art Museum of Estonia.