21.07.2017 - 20.08.2017 ARSENĀLS Exhibition Hall of the Latvian National Museum of Art, Creative Studio, Riga, curator: Līna Birzaka Priekule
In his novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984) a Czech-born French writer Milan Kundera asks: “But is heaviness truly deplorable and lightness splendid? The heaviest of burdens crushes us, we sink beneath it, it pins us to the ground. But in the love poetry of every age, the woman longs to be weighed down by the man’s body. The heaviest of burdens is therefore simultaneously an image of life’s most intense fulfillment. The heavier the burden, the closer our lives come to the earth, the more real and truthful they become.” Paula Zariņa-Zēmane’s exhibition is playing between the big opposites – heavy and light, dark and bright, peace and movement. A balance point appears to break the excess realities.
