From June 3 to July 8, PAiR Gallery will host the exhibition of Sarmite Malina “Plastic Surgery”.

The PLASTIC SURGERY exhibition is opened by red, twisted mirrors placed in black polished frames. They are like confused and tired information carriers of Sarmīte’s laborious experience. Their shape and color unabashedly reveal the point where she is now. PLASTIC SURGERY in this case means only the plastic surgery that is done to each of us. You can say – for free.

Sarmīte Māliņa is a Latvian artist. She has graduated from Rēzekne Secondary School of Applied Arts and the Design Department of the Latvian Academy of Arts.

Sarmīte participates in exhibitions since 1986. Together with Sergej Davidov and Oleg Tillberg, she created installations in the 1980s (“Staburaga children”, “People in cages”), in the 1990s she created objects (“Feelings”, 1992; “Language”, “Electric chair”, “Happy childhood”, all 1996; “Sunny Day”, 1997; “Experience”, 1998). In 1995, she received the prize of the international jury of the 3rd annual “Soros Contemporary Art Center – Riga” exhibition “Monument” for the object “Unfounded joy”. Later, she worked together with photographer Kristaps Kalns (installation “Love never ends”, 2008), 2015.