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Constellation
@Art Academy of Latvia
2017.Completion of the master's degree
As life flows on, alongside the usual background noise, there are moments when a clear sense of a particular ‘order of things’—a harmony—resonates. These moments, though easily disrupted, allow us to touch the grandeur of nature and open doors to wonder and reverence. In these moments, perception sharpens, sadness arises, and a strong need to capture even a small fragment of that instant is born. Along with sadness comes the fear of losing something important that was not caught in time.Laimdota Malle’s artistic practice explores chains of fragmented events and internal impulses, creating compositions that incorporate images, drawings, fragments, imprints across various media. The works are inspired by found photographs and video frames. Through surface treatments, such as scratches and pencil marks, water spilled on paper and ink traces, the works embody a dimension of memory, with texture symbolizing traces of time in both technical and metaphorical senses.
Constellation summed up seven drawing series including “Lullaby,” “Silkworm Pupae,” “White Room,” and “Where the Needle Goes, Thread Shall Follow,” in which the artist examined the relationship between image and surface, as well as the dialogue between drawing and photography, conceptualizing drawing within a discourse on time and materiality as a lens through which the movements of prints and the pressure of the hand are explored.
Photographed by Didzis Grodzs
