Riga 2026

Artist: Vladislav Saweljevs, Anna Matveeva

Parallax is a duo exhibition bringing together photographic works by Anna Matveeva and ceramic works by Vladislav Saweljevs.
The project explores perception, movement, and the material traces of time, uniting two distinct artistic practices within a shared contemplation of motion and stillness.

Anna Matveeva’s photographic series was created during train journeys across Europe and Russia. Seen from a moving train, the landscape resists the human gaze: objects dissolve into motion, time becomes elastic, and space transforms into a continuous flow. Through long exposure and sustained velocity, Matveeva captures not only physical movement, but also the visual and cultural rhythms embedded within the terrain.

In Europe, geometry, order, and clearly defined boundaries emerge naturally within the frame. In Russia, vastness and irregularity dominate — open, expansive spaces that require the eye to search, isolate, and extract fragments from an unstructured whole. These images preserve fleeting moments of transit: traces of places passed through, shaped by distance, speed, and the act of looking.

Matveeva has exhibited twice in Paris, further establishing her international presence and engagement with European audiences.

In dialogue with the photographs, Saweljevs’s ceramic works propose a contrasting yet complementary state of time. If Matveeva’s images embody time in motion — fragments glimpsed in transit — Saweljevs’s ceramics hold time after movement. They exist as residue, as pressure solidified into form. Each piece becomes a record of touch, transformation, and compression.

Saweljevs previously presented a solo exhibition in Berlin, and his works are held in private collections in Los Angeles and Berlin.

Together, the works create a space between movement and what remains — between transit and stillness.
Parallax unfolds as an exploration of two temporal states: the ephemeral and the enduring, the fleeting glance and the lasting imprint.