Points of Freedom
Riga 2025
As part of the inaugural Riga Art Week, we proudly present "Points of Freedom" — an exhibition dedicated to freedom not as a fixed idea, but as a process, a movement, and an inner shift.
This new show brings together the work of two emerging Latvian artists, Anna Egle and Julija Silova. Both were recently featured at ZONAMACO 2025 in Mexico City, one of the largest art fairs in Latin America.
This exhibition aims to examine freedom through different mediums and processes: how it is born, how it is transformed, how it is questioned and, finally, how it becomes possible.
"Points of Freedom" is not an answer to the question "what is freedom?",It is an invitation to experience its unfolding.
Public opening: May 30, 15:00–18:00
The exhibition runs through July 11, 2025 (visits by appointment)
As part of the inaugural Riga Art Week, we proudly present "Points of Freedom" — an exhibition dedicated to freedom not as a fixed idea, but as a process, a movement, and an inner shift.
This new show brings together the work of two emerging Latvian artists, Anna Egle and Julija Silova. Both were recently featured at ZONAMACO 2025 in Mexico City, one of the largest art fairs in Latin America.
This exhibition aims to examine freedom through different mediums and processes: how it is born, how it is transformed, how it is questioned and, finally, how it becomes possible.
"Points of Freedom" is not an answer to the question "what is freedom?",It is an invitation to experience its unfolding.
Public opening: May 30, 15:00–18:00
The exhibition runs through July 11, 2025 (visits by appointment)
Anna Egle "Journey", 2024, Mixed Media
Anna Egle explores sculpture as a repository of temporal traces - of nature, culture, ritual and loss. In her work, the fusion of Latvian tradition (particularly the symbol trejdeviņi, found in Dainas - Latvian folk songs and poetic heritage) with contemporary sculptural forms creates images in which past and future merge into a speculative present. These objects are not artefacts, but rather anticipations - fragile structures that offer a new understanding of sustainability and adaptation in a world in constant transformation.
The spaces created by Anna balance the physical and the poetic. They do not so much capture freedom as create the conditions for experiencing it - through material, light, emptiness and sound.
Anna Egle explores sculpture as a repository of temporal traces - of nature, culture, ritual and loss. In her work, the fusion of Latvian tradition (particularly the symbol trejdeviņi, found in Dainas - Latvian folk songs and poetic heritage) with contemporary sculptural forms creates images in which past and future merge into a speculative present. These objects are not artefacts, but rather anticipations - fragile structures that offer a new understanding of sustainability and adaptation in a world in constant transformation.
The spaces created by Anna balance the physical and the poetic. They do not so much capture freedom as create the conditions for experiencing it - through material, light, emptiness and sound.
Julia Silova "SEMANTIC SATIATION" Series of 16 works, 2023, Oil on canvas, 120 x 120 cm
While Egle addresses myth and materiality, Julia Silova works with the process and mental state of the artist. Her series Set Harmony offers a method of repetition, obsessive, almost meditative, as a way of blurring meanings. By repeating fragments of realistically painted female bodies, the artist achieves an effect of semantic saturation in which images lose their original meaning, becoming visual “white noise”.
However, in this destruction is liberation. The rejection of originality, the rejection of linear narrative, and the rejection of unambiguity all lead to the formation of a new language. Silova views the body as an unfixed entity, fluid, changeable, flowing, as unattainable as freedom itself. Here, the artistic act is not the creation of an object, but a stay inside a process that never ends.
Despite the difference in mediums and visual language, the practices of both artists resonate at the level of idea: freedom is the point of entry into experimentation. For Anna, it is an experiment with material, with light, with the space between objects and their meanings. For Julia, it is an intellectual and bodily experiment, a process of repetition and loss in which a new perception of form emerges.
“Points of Freedom” is not a final answer to the question of what freedom is. It is a multiplicity of points of entry: into the body, into the landscape, into memory, into loss and into form-making. It is not a position, but a state of movement. Here, one can get lost. Here, one can go beyond.
And it is in these points - in the cracks between meaning and form, between repetition and destruction, between the past and what does not yet exist - that freedom is born.
While Egle addresses myth and materiality, Julia Silova works with the process and mental state of the artist. Her series Set Harmony offers a method of repetition, obsessive, almost meditative, as a way of blurring meanings. By repeating fragments of realistically painted female bodies, the artist achieves an effect of semantic saturation in which images lose their original meaning, becoming visual “white noise”.
However, in this destruction is liberation. The rejection of originality, the rejection of linear narrative, and the rejection of unambiguity all lead to the formation of a new language. Silova views the body as an unfixed entity, fluid, changeable, flowing, as unattainable as freedom itself. Here, the artistic act is not the creation of an object, but a stay inside a process that never ends.
Despite the difference in mediums and visual language, the practices of both artists resonate at the level of idea: freedom is the point of entry into experimentation. For Anna, it is an experiment with material, with light, with the space between objects and their meanings. For Julia, it is an intellectual and bodily experiment, a process of repetition and loss in which a new perception of form emerges.
“Points of Freedom” is not a final answer to the question of what freedom is. It is a multiplicity of points of entry: into the body, into the landscape, into memory, into loss and into form-making. It is not a position, but a state of movement. Here, one can get lost. Here, one can go beyond.
And it is in these points - in the cracks between meaning and form, between repetition and destruction, between the past and what does not yet exist - that freedom is born.