From October 28 to December 29 of this year, the solo exhibition of the painter Envija "I'm bad" will be on display in the Intro hall of the exhibition hall "Riga art space".
The exhibition is conceived as a theory of expressive, hooligan-free painting. It consists of oil paintings of various formats painted over the past two years, as well as some sculptural and ready-made objects. Envija’s works attract people with her juicy and unmediated painting style, where the inner revelations of the artist intertwine with free movement between painting genres and references to world painting masters.
Envija: "Away from the certain, away from the story, where only sensual work with material remains, about color and surface tension, about form without purpose, about expression, about the search for form, about the fact that it does not fit in the hand, about bare painting for the sake of painting itself. I don't want a story, I want to be the one who doesn't talk. I want it to be just about substance, about lines, space, curves and color harmony. Only for surface tension. Energy doesn't need meaning, energy resides in the stroke itself. The energy is dispassionate to the story. I don't want a story."
Envija has chosen to use only her name as her pseudonym. In 2021, she graduated from the Latvian Academy of Arts in the subfield of painting. She improved her painting knowledge at the Gdańsk Art Academy (2014–2015). Since 2013, she has participated in several group exhibitions in Latvia, Lithuania and Poland, and has held four personal exhibitions. The most important exhibitions and projects in recent years: ES_TEXT, LNMM, 2022; personal exhibition "Myth for private use" Art in XO gallery, 2021; Survival Kit 11, 2020; personal exhibition "We will all laugh, be sad, cry, laugh again" at Jurmala City Museum, 2020; Indulis Zariņš/Ieva Iltnere and Envija, Art needs space summer house in Esplanade, 2019.
The exhibition is organized by the exhibition hall of the Association of Cultural Institutions of Riga Municipality "Riga art space", supported by the Riga City Council and the State Cultural Capital Fund.