In this exhibition, the artist’s imaginative visions are arranged in an imaginary diagonal line that surrounds the entire perimeter of the vast hall. The series of sculptures-typologies traces this diagonally, splits the rhythm and reveals gesture patterns that gradually merge, creating a comprehensive sense of space and experience. The center of the exhibition integrates an upside-down sculptural element – a red “tower”, which was previously on display at Grantiņa’s exposition “Sun Dog” in the Latvian Pavilion at the 58th Venice International Art Biennale. The linear arrangement of these objects can be experienced as a record of spatial composition, as a language of sculptural drawings: “Field Space” reads physical space as a free form in which to enter.
The capacity of the exhibition stems from the encounter with form as something all-encompassing – revealing the essence of matter in synthesis with our sensory experience, our ability to imagine the completion of form and thus to become part of it. “Field space” is a web of extended, cyclic motions that form an extended interface through the material, driving the spirit of creation and the dynamics of experience. Grantiņa’s sculptural inscription of space provides access points to the invisible: the realm of the senses, the intuition, the unconscious.
The Polish composer Raphael Rogiński , interpreting the sculptural notation, creates the musical key to the visual experience in an improvised composition. Based on Grantiņa’s sculptural writings, Roginskis transforms the sculptures into sonic vibrations that continue the compositional line of “Field Space”, while allowing them to move away from attachment to the visible sphere and open a new dimension to interaction. Roginsky’s soundtrack has its own format, and it exists independently – as a concert, as a performance, as a performance on the radio.
About the artist
Daiga Grantiņa was born in 1985 in Saldus (Latvia), studied in Hamburg (Germany) and Vienna (Austria), works and lives in Paris (France). Among the most important solo exhibitions: “ Atem, Lehm ” at the gallery “GAMeC” (Bergamo, Italy, 2021), “ What Eats Around Itself ” at the New Museum ( New Museum , New York, USA, 2020), “Sun Dog” at the 58th Venice Biennale pavilion, Venice, Italy, 2019), TOLL at Tokyo Castle ( Palais de Tokyo , Paris, France, 2018), Pillars Sliding off Coat-ee at Kunstverein in Hamburg (Hamburg, Germany, 2017).
Text: Zane Onckule
