The exhibition ‘The Fog Draws a Softer Edge’ by Kristīne Daukšte ran at TUR_telpa until 22 March.
Kristīne Daukšte’s new work invites visitors into a space that feels like it’s caught in a moment of change – somewhere between the solid and the fleeting, the natural and the constructed. Her installation emerges from a deep engagement with the space of TUR, where its distinct characteristics have acted as a catalyst for ideas, material, and form to converge. In response to its atmosphere and the layered traces of what came before, the work takes shape as an extension of its surroundings, subtly guided by the creative dialogue that unfolds within it. Her installation feels suspended from a ground layered by previous presence and appears to be growing naturally from the essence of the space. As if, after some indistinct weight of time, a fog has lifted and revealed a landscape that has grown organically from it, exploring material and how it relates to her concepts and artistic practice.
The installation does not impose itself on the space but rather unfolds within and acknowledges it – TUR, with its vast openness, its exposure to the elements, the way nature encroaches through gaps and seams. The humidity, the cold, the shifting light – they do not merely surround the work but shape it, becoming integral to its form and meaning. Like fog itself, the work resists rigid definition; it hovers, it shifts, it invites multiple readings. Philosophers Deleuze and Guattari’s concept of the rhizome – an interconnected system without hierarchy – offers a useful lens through which to read this work: a landscape of thought that refuses singular narratives. Rather than being a static object, the installation becomes an unfolding event, an encounter that shifts with the movement of the viewer. The act of navigating the space – walking, pausing, looking downward as one might on a forest path – becomes part of the experience, an embodied form of wayfinding.
Composed of abstract cutouts – leaf-like, petal-like, perhaps fragments of a larger whole – the installation extends horizontally, echoing natural formations while also suggesting traces of human intervention. It oscillates between states: a structure that could be a shelter, a greenhouse, a remnant of excavation. Its presence is both grounded and ephemeral, evoking the precarious balance between material permanence and inevitable dissolution. Like a cartographic exercise in flux, it does not map space as a fixed entity but as a network of relations – fluid, contingent, and ever-changing.
Curator and text: Edd Schouten
Light Design: Maksimilians Kotovičs
Project Manager: Kristīne Ercika
Production Support: Ada Ruszkiewicz and Andris Freibergs
Graphic Design: Andris Kaļiņins
Supported by the Latvian State Culture Capital Foundation
Photography: Kristīne Madjare
