Eike Eplik In Times When Everything Else Seems More Important

Eplik’s solo exhibition is a playground for exhausted grown-ups who have forgotten the transformative effects and freedoms that a childlike openness and curiosity can present. Through playful rediscovery of one’s natural and youthful self, she questions the limitations and lack of imagination that the world of reason presents. Becoming a mother and observing her child’s free-spirited engagement with the world awakened in Eplik an urge to seek the same unapologetic courage to explore and nurture her inner child. In its own way, this project is a return to Eplik’s childhood world in the countryside near Rapla. This was a place where your fantasy could create and explore different worlds, and neither the space nor the body would suffer from limits built by rules. The closet could become a nightclub, and the outdoors, an extension of one’s body, melting together with mud or forest.