The room red, like the inside of a dying brain ... like when a dying person gets their first glass from the well of knowledge and even the dumbest among them knows more than us ... the surrender, emptied of innocence ... the eye sockets of the dead and spaces between the ribs will scrutinize "the ordinary person" and the one who "breathes", becomes the grotesquely deformed, an imperfect fusion of power, "forces that will what the others will," where the dead are the only "forces that will themselves".

Excerpt from Anders Brenno's text: How to witness a conversation between the dead, 2023.

USIKKERKUNSTJENTE steps into the role of curator. She allows herself to be inspired by the bartender’s expertise with flavour combinations. It is a cocktail in perfect balance between sweetness, acidity, and bitterness, and finally, a zest for aroma. All ingredients can be consumed separately, but in the mixture, something remarkable happens.

She chooses to highlight artists she admires and looks up to and to explore new connections that arise in the encounter between the artists. In her new role as curator, USIKKERKUNSTJENTE thinks about the crime novel “The Thin Man” by Dashiell Hammett, where detectives Nick and Nora "solve murder mysteries over cocktails". Inspired by this fiction, USIKKERKUNSTJENTE is split into the two characters Nick and Nora, to solve a curatorial mystery in such a manner. The goal is to highlight the artworks and artists through a mysterious blend of murder, true crime, and horror with a hint of 1930s cocktail aesthetics. USIKKERKUNSTJENTE presents the exhibition NIC N´ NO with the artists Kristina Austi, Anders Brenno, Mattias Härenstam, Linda Morell, and Ingrid Torvund.

More about the exhibition: https://www.trafokunsthall.no/usikkerkunstjente

"Macula Lutea" means yellow spot in Lithuanian. It is the most sensitive part of the eye that allows us to distinguish colors and see the environment clearly. At the same time, it is like a spell: like the name of an exotic plant or animal taken from a Latin textbook. Looking at each object or phenomenon, we "color" it with our own language or words to describe what we see. This is how we create and can pass it on to others. But do we listen to what we see? And then do we stop seeing for real? Ultimately, vision is just a play of light and color, waves traveling through the complex cells of our eyes and everyone. In works woven with the jacquard technique, I try to break away from language and look at things and the environment as if I didn't know the words. In that environment, things lose their forms. Paradox, but here too, complex laws of physics are followed, the weaving of threads is precisely calculated, trying to create a multifaceted variety of colors in fabrics, from only a few given threads, I try to create "randomness", to see light as a color, dancing in the retina and reflected in closed eyelids, when sometimes recognizable objects still emerge. /K. Austi/

The exhibition wasbe presented by art critic, doctor of humanitarian sciences, associate professor Dalia Karatajienė.

The exhibition is supported by Norwegian Crafts.

My woven work "If (you’re) alive – may the sea foam milk If (you’re) dead – may the sea foam blood…” is selected for the 7th International Textile and Fibre Art Triennial.
The title of the Triennial this year is Quo Vadis?

The motto of the 7th Riga Triennial is the Latin phrase QUO VADIS? (Where are you going?). Originating in a religious context and used in both literature and cinema today, the phrase seems relevant to what is happening in the world and society, including art and culture.

Unlike previous triennials, the 2023 triennial will be organized in 2 museums: the Museum of Decorative Arts and Design and the Art Museum RIGA BOURSE from 15 June to 17 September. In parallel with the works of textile and fibre art, the triennial will include video textiles. A 2-day scientific conference is planned within the framework of the triennial for specialists and artists to discuss current issues in the field. In the context of the triennial, several satellite exhibitions and creative workshops will be organized, and the main prize winners will be awarded.

https://www.lnmm.lv/en/museum-of-decorative-arts-and-design/exhibitions/7th-riga-international-textile-and-fibre-art-triennial-quo-vadis-491

Norwegian Crafts support participation in the exhibition.

An exhibition is taking place at Galleri Sekken, which can be found on a small island in the Romsdalsfjord, just outside of Molde. The exhibition period is from 10th of June until 31st of July.
Please follow the opening hours on FB site for the exhibition: https://www.facebook.com/GalleriSekken