Mati Zemla (Mother Earth) – is a exhibition that explores the ancient connection between the female body, fertility, and the Earth through photography and performance. Drawing inspiration from prehistoric depictions of Mother Earth and Venus figures, the project revisits archetypes that have shaped art, mythology, and collective memory throughout history.
In the photographic series, female figures are placed within raw natural landscapes, reconnecting the body with the land in its most elemental form. The women appear as symbolic “Venuses” — diverse, anonymous, and timeless — their identities concealed beneath arrangements of fruit, flowers, and vegetation that evoke abundance, fertility, and the cycles of nature.
The exhibition opens with an immersive live performance that transforms the gallery space into a sensory environment of earth, darkness, scent, sound, and movement.
Mati Zemla invites the audience into a contemplative experience that reflects on humanity’s primal relationship with nature, the symbolism of the feminine body, and the enduring idea of Earth as both origin and source of life.
Taste of desire – The exhibition consists of a series of 8 thematic photographs accompanied by a performative element — a bowl of fresh salad placed in front of the works. The vegetables shown in the photographs are treated as objects of desire.
Visitors are invited to enter into a dialogue between image and physical experience, engaging with the work through both sight and taste, and to question the relationship between representation and reality: is it still the same vegetable once it moves from image to consumption?
This combination of photography and performance opens questions about perception, fetishization, and the boundaries of artistic experience, where the viewer becomes an active participant rather than a passive observer.
+18 NOTICE: This installation includes performative elements intended for adult audiences only.