05.09.2018 - 06.10.2018.

ANDA POIKĀNE. IN THE SHADE

Fatigued by the summer heat we search for a place to draw breath and contemplate in shade. In the shadow under trees, under flowers, in the shadow of a playful, delicate horse, in the shadow of summer that turns into a September afternoon. The exhibition is devoted to meditation, reflected in unique human-sized terracota sculptures, impressive three-dimensional paper shapes, drawings and collages.

The tired one seeks a place to recline. It has been thus for thousands of years - in the search for shelter from the sun, from the wind, from anxiety. “What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you?” (New Testament James 4:1). When the weary one looks for a shade comes the moment of truce.

Sculptor Anda Poikāne's exhibition Shade is concieved as a visual event to be experienced by viewer, as it is not just a show of the accomplished works but rather an invitation to submit to the senses, fostered by the creations, and to contemplate about life and time in the search of the Great Truth. It is a gripping game, where the visitor of the exhibition enters the world created by the artist and becomes the main hero. It's a shade or a fragment of a larger fragment. We perceive many things and phenomena in bits, as it is difficult to grasp connections and bonds, especially if the distance is not sufficient for observation. But even if we believe to comprehend the Great Truth, that is only a detail as well, for only the chosen can comprehend the complete, where the fragments melt together and merge.

Anda Poikāne's exhibition is one of the ways to observe this world. Everyhing is interwound there – three dimensional shapes with drawings, videos with sculptures, mobile objects with stationary, large with tiny, silence with sound, colour, light and perceivable depth. It is a place to meet the like-minded, for the magic of being together and collaboration is the true excitement of the exhibition. Such a place is like a canvas where a painting is created by composing the proportions.

Co-author of video works: Raitis Vulfs
Concept of exposition: in cooperation with artist Margarita Budze
Curator of exhibition: art historian Eva Rotčenkova

Free entrance.

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