PRACTICE FOR BEING
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Hobusepea Gallery
Tallinn, Estonia
2025
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Gray is existence in the dark of November.
Gray is the horizon, gray is the sea; gray as solid as stone.
Gray is balance – supportive and grounding, calm and steady.
Practice for Being addresses anxiety – both within us and around us. Through shades of gray and stony textures, I seek points of contact between tension and calm, trying to merge them into one continuous flow.
How can we find our center, maintain focus, and stay afloat in a world that swells with anxiety? How can we keep our balance amid constant tides of rise and fall, in the ceaseless flow of information? How can we make time pause, if only for a moment, simply to be? In today’s world, this feels an ever-deepening challenge.
For me, painting has become a quiet mind exercise through which, in the repetition of lines and surfaces, I encounter a state of presence and the gentle slowing of time in a world that moves too fast. I find a similar stillness when gazing at the endless sea – whether calm or turbulent, it always silences thought. The exhibition brings together a series of ten oil paintings titled Wave and an underground installation created as a space for grounding.
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Sound: Sven Liba
Exhibition photography: Anna Mari Liivrand
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