Invisible Horizons - Riin Pallon & Kairi Orgusaar

The opening event is on Thursday 24.2. at 18:00. Welcome!

At their new exhibition in Uusikaupunki, Finland, artists Riin Pallon and Kairi Orgusaar are showing their paintings created during previous 2 years.  Both hail from Rapla, a small Estonian town where they’ve been active running a local contemporary art centre, organising events and teaching courses, for over 10 years. They have previously shown their works in Finland at Mynämäki and Nousiainen in 2012; thanks to ongoing contacts with Finnish artists, they are back with their newest creations.

Riin Pallon: “My paintings are journeys through poetic landscapes - vast expanses with room for thought.  If you look at them with your heart, brush strokes on canvas let you get carried away to mountains and seas, in search of invisible horizons, or into a maelstrom of emotions. When looking for reflections, I understood the way they depend on the one doing the reflecting. The result is coloured by the filter of one’s experiences and views, and never quite mirrors the original. A few of the paintings focus on finding duality in my surroundings. I am more and more convinced with every passing day that there seems to be a counterpoint to both good and evil; both heat and cold.”

Kairi Orgusaar: “I bring to Finland a series focusing on my favourite female artists. The paintings are soulscapes, marking a private, intimate sphere - an inner cosmos. I was inspired by three women: Tove Jansson, Georgia O’Keeffe and Frida Kahlo. Each painting contains a detail with a tiny portrait in it, but the rest of its surface is made up of a three-colour accord conveying an essence, or emotion, pertaining to that particular person.  Perhaps one might connect them to the harsh beauty of the Mexican desert, or the infinite dandelion fields of the Nordic spring melting into the sea. My abstract paintings can be see as mindscapes; in some, I‘ve been searching for primal forces that set ocean tides, currents, storms and earthquakes in motion. Others are related to personal emotions, dreams, discoveries and perceptions. And somewhere, there are barely visible lines, hidden horizons that block the line of sight.  Only when one takes a step into the unknown, new perspectives come apparent, while previous experience gets filled with new meaning. It is like a soul-to-soul conversation, a game of ping pong, or the process of solving equations. What results in the process is joy.”

The exhibition is supported by Rapla municipality and Development Fund of Local Authorities of Rapla County.

The exhibition is open on Fri 25.2.–Tue 22.3.2022

Additional information:
Mon-Wed 10.00–16.00
Thu 10.00–18.00
Fri 10.00–16.00