Socks, blouses and nightgowns are shaking in the wind on Sunday morning. As you hang the laundry, thoughts puff up and flap like unruly sheets. Twenty clothes pegs or they will float away. Meanwhile, on the shore, under twenty planks, the sand rustles, the reeds part, the water ripples. Hundreds of casts with the rod, then watching the bait sink and the line stretch. A thought runs through every small action, which leads back to the thinker himself, like a thread. Both fishing and hanging out can be a form of daily meditation in which the mind becomes effortlessly quiet and peaceful.
It is through delving into himself that the artist is the initiator of new ideas. They are neither exhaustively clear nor infallible, but they offer new ways of thinking about the world. Through constant experimentation, a new form is obtained. A wooden peg has become a challenge from an everyday object. As opposed to endless refinement, the peg is stripped of its function, turning it into a sculpture until it gleams on a velvet pedestal. Meanwhile, the boards lying in the workshop took a new shape and were marked in the drawing. A similar boat was built at the seaside already at the beginning of the last century, but now it is being replaced. Only in this way something different from the existing is formed and becomes a new reality.
At the same time, the boundary between the workshop and the exhibition space is broken down, raising the question of when an object becomes a work of art. Or only when it is placed on the platform under the glass dome, or already when the first sketch is attached to the wall. On the other hand, neutralized pegs open a new point of view on the performance of daily duties. By freeing the silhouette of the peg, the clothes hanger is also freed from the work. The person performing the duty can not be sad, because maybe the time has come when the person performing the duty will also be taken along to catch the butes.

Curator: Roberta Atraste
Visual identity: Krišjānis Beļavskis
Set designer: Marianna Lapiņa
Photo: Pēteris Rūcis