outside marriage child
ready made, door handle, door, toilet, 2021
Group exhibition “EIX”, Elizabetes street 9, Riga, Latvia, 2021
Artists: Paula Betija Antenišķe, Liāna Ozoliņa, Marta Skābarde, Anna Terēza Tomsone, Emīls Kaupers, Kalvis Rudzītis, Rolands Gūtmanis, Justīne Emīlija Brieze, Adelīna Paņēvica, Beatrise Grudule, Roberts Viškints, Ivo Krieviņš, Endijs Andersons, Elēna Maija Kučiere, Grieta Vītoliņa, Laura Mendija Rozīte.
Space is a relationship, quantitites that must be observed by someone present in order to define it. However, what happens when this presence cannot occur? Does the space continue to exist? Is it an autonomous parallelism? In the absence of presence, does it mean some sort existances death? This work seeks answers to these questions by deconstructing the mutual relationship between two spaces, the possibility of movement, beginning and end. At the same time, it allows one to bear witness to a space, whose existance can be called into question at the moment when access to it is denied, yet it creates an oppurtunity for another space, movement, parallelism. In seeking the answers, the work also reflects on the everyday thought processes of human desires and needs for mutual relationships, and the moment when they fail to meet and coincide. To want, but not be able to, or just to imagine that you cannot. Something unsaid and something unanswered, the non-encounter of mutual communication. This is also indicated by the location of the work, a toilet, place where sometimes one would like to enter, which later prompts one to think about privacy and its inclusion in the context of space.
Photos: Franciska Anna Beļāne