Link

Elīna Salnāja
11/07-02/08

The exhibition “Link” examines connection as a phenomenon of relationships – its construction, dissolution and reinterpretation. The title encompasses a spectrum of meanings: from hyperlink to link in a chain, to kinship ties or conceptual connections. As in Wittgenstein’s notion of family resemblances, meaning arises not from strict similarity, but from overlapping features – like shared eye shapes, nose lines, or familiar gestures within a family. This link is linguistic, aesthetic, technological and personal.
The act of linking is both literal and conceptual within the installation, deconstructed and reimagined through contextual variability. It emerges in the gap, the shift, the residue, between the lines. Screwed, glued, welded, stapled, mixed, fused, tied, stitched, healed.
How does an object change when connection becomes part of its identity? When does a bond constrain — and when does it set free? Can something that binds also open up possibilities? Perhaps the answer lies in method — methodos, the Greek for "a path of inquiry" — a way to forge the connection between self and world. The filler becomes the transfer of meaning. Grown into a bond the possibility of affection holds at a standstill. Grown into a scar the patch turns rough.

Elīna Salnāja graduated from the Audiovisual Department of the Latvian Academy of Arts in 2022, with a Bachelor's degree in Visual Communication. She has participated in several group exhibitions, most recently in August 2022 at the Dubulti Art Station, in the exhibition “Tagadismi”, part of a project by Thomas Hirschhorn. Since 2022, she has also been involved in organizing exhibitions at DOM gallery.

Graphic design: Elīna Salnāja
Exhibition supported by SCCF, Nurme Brewery & mkart.lv

ERNESTA BIRZNIEKA-UPISA STREET 15-5, RIGA WED—SAT 16:00—20:00