Echo of Present Moment

The dynamism, the movement of the drapery and the emotionality of the material,

such as sheets, which, due to the irreplaceable body fluids, have already served their

purpose in the hospital and the hotel. Installation and drawings of Katri Piri evoke

baroque in me. The canvas is consciously composed to explore new angles of view,

and the window of the room takes care of the refined play with light.

The visual form of cloths that are hardened by sugar water is fragile by its

dependence on the environment, where the increase of moisture will cause the work

to disappear and at the same time we can regenerate it. Water as a donor of life, the

lack of which leads to total destruction.

It was fascinating to me to touch the sculptures that were moistened in vague form

to the room. I felt something alive in my hands. Organic substance. The installation

reminds me of an intense experience of the work of Robert Cuoghi, Imitation of

Christ, which I have seen at the Venice Biennale. The sculptures were shrinking

during the exhibition, dried up, and finally disappeared completely, leaving nothing

but dust. In the works of Cuogi and Piri, the time is present in itself, time which

bring us extinction and a loss.

Lila Vainikka reflects in her paintings the inner, anthropocentric meaning of

being a human. Her paintings bring along through the portrait theme, conveying a

real world in communication with untouchable imagination.

Portrait mirrors the feelings of estrangement in society, where the way of our

present life style does not allow us to fully perceive ourselves and environment. The

fluid identity become as the main theme.

I would best express the feelings of the paintings by Aristotelés and his perception

of time -

“ A humanely lived presence is everything else than an unprolongable, pointless

point of presence between a no longer existing past and a non-existent future. "

"In one sense, it is still the same, in another sense, it is still different."

To give time is to give yourself to another, to experience the present. A personal

conversation between two people is a union of minds. The relationship between me

and you - when a two-sided presence is needed for communication.

The Temporary Exhibition invites us to meet and speak to each other.

The highest form of giving time is giving love. Mutual donation to each other.

"Live, wander, fall, win, recreate life from life."

James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Barbora Kachlíková/ Curator