"i choose a photo that shows me how i see myself. how i perceive my soul to be. i choose the photo and copy that which was a moment i will never get back. but through painting it, i re-live this impossibility. re-live this little piece of a second, the moment gone forever. by painting the photo, i am not a human but first a copying machine. i don’t think. i don’t feel. i barely breathe. i concentrate on copying the photo as i feel it to be."

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The exhibition presents a series of recent painted self-portraits. Each work originates from a photograph: images from family albums, snapshots from the artist’s phone, or found photographs circulating online, such as the recurring motif of the white horse.

 

The series focuses on the act of seeing and the unstable relationship between the one who looks and the one who is looked at, especially when both positions belong to the same person. The works consider how the seen image becomes part of the observer, folding back into the self, while at the same time generating friction: a subtle tension between inner perception, external image, and the fragmented, multiple self that emerges in between.

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Liisa Mudist (they/he) is an Estonian artist working with painting, poetry, and literary and art criticism. They hold an MFA in Painting from the University of the Arts Helsinki (2025) and have exhibited their work in Estonia, Finland, and Scotland. Their poetry and literary criticism have received multiple awards in Estonia, and their first book of poetry will be published by Värske Raamat in 2026.

The exhibition is on display from 27th November to 7th December. Warm welcome to the opening on Thursday, 27th November, from 17:00 to 21:00 at The Blue Verve! We look forward to seeing you.​

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