2025
Crossing the borders between art and everyday practices, work and play, action and observation, the exhibition The Organizer takes us through a meditative yet playful journey through life as seen by the artists. Kate Krolle and Reinis Bērziņš turn to painting, drawing, and installation to capture the flow of life in their countryside home.
The exhibition consists of several parts, grouping paintings, drawings, and installations into sections that explore themes such as countryside landscapes, still lives with tools, and portraits of their children.
The capturing of everyday phenomena becomes the central motif. Objects seem to live their own lives and participate in the artists’ world as entities with multiple meanings, defying stable semiotic relations. For example, a toolbox within a painting reveals itself as a poetic presence, evoking a sense of life’s constant movement. This unfathomable flow does not leave the viewer merely with a disturbed sense of reality and practicality; rather, it directs attention to observation itself – not as a static act of looking, but as an artistic method. It is a method that distances itself from intentional seeing, allowing space for seemingly aimless looking.
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By distancing itself from the constant noise of productivity, The Organizer becomes a portal to a more sensitive, more meaningful mode of life, grounded in attentive observation of the little things to which art must endlessly return.
/by Elizabete Vuškāne
