{"id":604,"date":"2025-09-12T11:26:57","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T10:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.collectivememoryis.com\/?page_id=604"},"modified":"2026-02-04T17:18:52","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T16:18:52","slug":"double-truth-reveal","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.collectivememoryis.com\/index.php\/en\/double-truth-reveal\/","title":{"rendered":"Double Truth: Reveal"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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How can you cope with a situation where you suddenly discover that someone close to you has lied profoundly? What if you uncover that one of your family members has done something terrible in the past? What is the right reaction, and is there some adequate response? The brittle feelings that balance between sadness, rage, confusion, or perhaps frustration are what we examine. The sudden reveal of the truth.<\/p>

The exhibition presented works of the Latvian artist El\u012bna V\u012btola, who, in recent years, has been untangling the life and legacy of her relative while also using it as a source of inspiration for her own art practice. She knew that he, too, was an artist and had disappeared during World War II. However, while searching for traces of his later life, V\u012btola learned much more and might have uncovered the truth.<\/p>

Through this exhibition project, we explore how to use, exhibit, and talk about artworks inspired by the person who had been unmasked, and overall, how to personally deal with such a discovery. The exhibition features both new works inspired by the exposure of the truth, as well as works that were created earlier in connection with the inspirational elements of V\u012btola\u2019s relative; these works are shown in a new context, with updated interpretations.<\/p>

The exhibition consists of seven projects from recent years. The Apple of My Eye (2024) object explores themes such as family tree, belonging, property, and reproduction. The immersive gesture paintings from The Line series (2024) tend to refer to territory and time. The Picnic (2024), monumentally painted ready-made from the Common Issues in Painting and Everyday Life series, is about community, hope, and naivety. The site-specific sugar mural Sweet Deal (2025) focuses on the meaning of loss, forgetting, and ephemerality. Base-Relieved (2025) questions the purposes of monuments and plaques, while Document frescos (2024) reveals our obsession with preserving memories. The exhibition closes with the (bitter)sweet message Double Truth: Reveal (2025), created in collaboration with the curator.<\/p>

All projects make significant use of historical materials and experimental techniques inspired by history itself, and therefore carry many layers of meaning and stories within. Each exhibited work is essentially a painting, even if this may not be apparent at first glance, and all represent the diverse possibilities of painting and its varied language.<\/p>

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El\u012bna V\u012btola’s conceptual work features expressive painting, complex objects, and site-specific projects inspired by personal stories. El\u012bna works with the medium of painting as a performative element, often combining this technique with ready-made objects or already existing everyday backdrops, which she imbues with new meaning by emphasizing their visuality. Within the framework of her themes, she addresses family history and related topics, which she examines in depth. Through her work, she comes to terms with the information she uncovers, further processing and contextualising it. <\/span><\/p>

El\u012bna earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in painting from the Latvian Academy of Art. She is the winner of the 2018 Nordic and Baltic Young Artist Award and she was shortlisted for the Purv\u012btis Prize in 2021. Her works are in the collections of the Latvian National Museum of Art and the European Patent Office Collection. In the past, El\u012bna was a curator at Riga Circus Elephant Stables and LOW gallery.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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12. 9. \u2013 9. 11. 2025 at Emil Filla Gallery<\/strong><\/p>

Velk\u00e1 hradebn\u00ed 3118
(entrance from Dlouh\u00e1 street)
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opening hours: \u00fat\u2013p\u00e1 10\u201318, so\u2013ne 13\u201318
admission is voluntary<\/span><\/p>

Diana Kn\u011b\u017e\u00ednkov\u00e1
curator<\/span><\/p>

Nikola Ilju\u010dokov\u00e1, Barbora Tomov\u00e1
graphic design<\/span><\/p>

Elis Kondel\u00edkov\u00e1
photography<\/span><\/p>

Kate\u0159ina Kulkov\u00e1, Jan Kol\u00e1\u010dek, Luk\u00e1\u0161 Richter, Nikola Kub\u00e1tov\u00e1
exhibition production<\/span><\/p>

\u0160imon Kotmel
transport<\/span><\/p>

Alex F\u00fcrst\u016f
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