Horsegirl by Eeva Paavela

We warmly invite you to join us for the opening of Horsegirl, a solo exhibition by Eeva Paavela, exploring the experience of being driven beyond oneself.

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The title Horsegirl is a term commonly used as a dismissive description of preteen girls; it is a rather awkward phase, a site of tension between the innocence of childhood, growing self-awareness, and social conditioning. Drawing from poetic imagery of the horse and its rider, Paavela explores what it means to be inhabited by desire, to be driven beyond the self, to surrender, and to simultaneously resist it. The paintings reveal a subject who is always in motion: dreaming, desiring, becoming.

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"Maybe it is a dream of some sort of freedom. But shouldn’t a horse know that freedom itself is another dream? Its path was always written in its gallop. What do horses dream of? In my dream, I am the horse, the rider and the field together, woven into a single play of movement."

The exhibition is on display from 23rd October to 2nd November. Warm welcome to the opening on Thursday, 23rd October, from 17:00 to 21:00 at The Blue Verve! We look forward to seeing you.​