Luīze Rukšāne “4”

The series of works, which has become “Exhibition about Falling in Love”, presents the author’s observations about life in parallel realities — inventing signs where there are none at all. Drifting along the shore, logs being as large as telephone poles, snags and ugly tree stumps provide inspiration for riddles without any correct answers. In a series of ten drawings, the landscape is like a key that takes the viewer to the starting point of the puzzle — the Seashore.

Riddles arise because we do not see things as they are, but as we are ourselves. It’s tragic and comical at the same time. But everything becomes clear and understandable when, for example, we stop loving someone. Or something. A new, clearer belief is formed. Luīze’s drawings are very serious and sometimes gloomy, however, considering the work as a whole, they are also imbued with genuine interest and cautious fragility.

The author has created a series of realistic drawings with a graphite pencil, presenting love. The drawing took its place next to the “serious” art techniques in the era of Romanticism, when the main attention was paid to the inner world of people, desires and mood swings. The chosen technique allows the author to visually translate everyday realities in a characteristic sensual manner, paying attention to the smallest of details.