TATJANA PIETERS is honoured to invite you to the third solo exhibition by Indrikis Gelzis at the gallery. ‘What Stays When the Shape Leaves Knot’ presents new wall-based sculptural objects using metal, wood, and textiles. Gelzis employs 3D software in his creative process, blending digital technology with natural materials to form abstract, formally nuanced compositions.
The exhibition approaches form as an imprint and the knot as an event. In Gelzis’s works, the knot is neither ornament nor solution. It is an object that occupies a place without a fixed name: an opening, a lack, a potential, a trace of what once existed, and at the same time a construction that refuses to serve memory.
Through practice, material, tightening, tension, and structural discipline, the works compel the gaze to remain with the thing itself. They do not produce images. They produce conditions. The shape may leave, but the knot’s logic remains, like a tightened muscle. The line that stretches, bends, secures and releases these constructions moves like a line shooting through an infographic, driven by the positive and negative drops of an observation, as if plotted across a diagram. Wind moves through the mouth cavity as proof that emptiness is not absence, but an active space.
Indrikis Gelzis (LV, 1988) lives and works in Riga. He holds an MA in Visual Communication from the Art Academy of Latvia, Riga (LV) and a Post-Graduate degree from HISK – Higher Institute for Fine Arts (BE). Gelzis had exhibitions at a.o. Polina Berlin, NY (US); Kim? Contemporary Art Centre, Riga (LV); Castor, London (UK); ASHES/ASHES NY (US); King’s Leap, NY (US). Gelzis will have upcoming exhibitions at SUPRAINFINIT, Bucharest (RO), CAC Vilnius, Kim? Contemporary Art Centre Riga / Milwaukee Sculpture (US).
Works of Indrikis Gelzis are featured in amongst others the collections of the Latvian National Museum of Art, Riga (LV); Museum of Recent Art, Bucharest (RO); S.M.A.K., The Municipal Museum of Contemporary Art, Ghent (BE); The Lewben Art Foundation, Lithuania; Celine Art Project, London (UK) Beijing (CH) & Taipei (TW) and in private collections such as those of Paul Thiers (BE), Servais, Brussels (BE); De Werd, Amsterdam (NL); Van Quickenborne-Clerinx (BE); Frédéric de Goldschmidt, Brussels (BE); Wang Jianlin, China; Colin Fernandes, USA; Zuzans, Riga (LV).
