“I am searching for a special state where a person interacts with the world, dissolves into it, and is part of it.”

The exhibition presents paintings from the Human Touch and In Flux series, created between 2020 and 2023. In the Human Touch series, the human being is seen as a romanticized and spontaneous organism, as a powerful and living flow of energy rather than a programmed algorithm. The point of touch is like an invisible mediator, symbolizing the connection of one being with everything that exists.

In In Flux paintings, the human figure is depicted in a generalized way, with improvised gestures but with concentrated thought, combining the ordinary with the transcendent, the profane with the sacred, and the physical with the spiritual. It is a visual message about visible and invisible energies, tangible and intangible. Dynamic color strokes and rhythms create different emotional stories.

Artist Irina Špakova (1987) graduated from the Art Academy of Latvia, Department of Painting (2014). She studied traditional music in Bali and handicrafts on the island of Sumatra, Indonesia. She has organized six solo exhibitions and participated in over 20 group exhibitions. She has worked on projects abroad, creating stage decorations for a children’s musical, participating in an international comics festival, group exhibitions, and an art residency in Portugal, as well as organizing workshops in Bali. Her work also includes performance art, and she has participated in several performance projects in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, and Melbourne, Australia. In 2022, she was one of the participants in the painting symposium “Silva Linarte 2022”, organized by Daugavpils Mark Rothko Art Center. Irina Špakova is the author of two published books: a book on photography AND I Believe and a book From West to East to West. Currently, she teaches painting to children.