Exhibition “From Light and Emptiness”: Andrejs on Morning Light in a Room

A Latvian cultural events listing has published an announcement for an exhibition titled “From Light and Emptiness” (“No gaismas un tukšuma”). The source names no venue, no dates and no participants. All that is available is a text written by Andrejs, which sets out the mood of the show. His surname and his role in the exhibition are not specified.

Morning light in a room

The text describes a morning that arrives in a room slowly. First the opposite wall turns pink, then the light touches the windowsill and the floor. The walls soak up the light and turn it into a warm white tone with a hint of dust.

The author notes that light visits the room every morning and colours the walls anew each time. The shades shift from golden to milky and later almost pink. Patches of light are compared to pieces of a broken mirror, each holding its own moment of the day.

Time and memory

Andrejs writes that today is only a thin layer of paint over yesterday, and that memories show beneath it like old cracks. They become visible when the light falls at the right angle. In the author's view, time does not vanish but becomes transparent, like an old watercolour in which one can no longer tell where the sky ends and the wall begins.

The text closes by linking beauty with the way a person looks, waits and allows themselves to be, and with not being afraid of disappearing. The source gives no further information about the exhibition's content.