Cette monographie explore les éléments visuels, autobiographiques et théoriques qui sous-tendent la pratique du peintre letton Ēriks Apaļais, avec deux essais.
Apaļais draws from fields as diverse as psychoanalysis, literary theory, psycholinguistics, structural linguistics, and semiotics to pose pointed picture-form questions about the nature of memory, language, representation, and the self. Linked to these inquiries are the uncanny childhood experiences that seem to permeate his work. As Gregos notes "the strength of his work lies in his power of allusion, of understatement and enigma." The effect achieved is liberating, lending audiences a fresh pair of eyes with which to examine a variety of experiences. As Hirša puts it, Apaļais' investigations of the links between language and visuality amount to "an emancipation from the conventional ways of looking and thinking that have shaped…our relationship with the visual arts, images and practices of representation."
Publié suite à l'exposition éponyme au Musée national d'art de Lettonie en 2020.
Ēriks Apaļais (né en 1981) est un peintre letton. Ses œuvres, entre abstraction et figuration, mettent en scène des situations non narratives dans des décors équivoques et non identifiables.
