Eyelash Fortress

Eyelash Fortress marks Indriķis Ģelzis’s third solo exhibition with Suprainfinit, transforming the gallery into an odyssey that navigates between reality and dream,  awakening and digital frenzy. Hovering across shifting conditions of form, attitude, and economy, the artist’s practice unfolds as a continuous excavation within the  shattering flux that surrounds society and underpins every relationship.

As a bricoleur of analogue and digital rhythms and shapes, Ģelzis imprints flashes of infographic visuals and metadata into his sculptural works, elements that permeate our daily routines and brain. The physicality of his practice emerges from a complex process: digital imagery, jolted by streams of statistical data, is translated into anthropomorphised and hybrid creatures that both surveil and embrace our presence.

When was the last time you felt displaced from a tangible context, your body divided into a silhouette at once human, plant, and nonhuman?

Stepping into the gallery, perceptions of time and space begin to shift, almost negating prior understandings of gravity and realness. Photons of intense blue light flood the space every three minutes, uttering fragments from Watery Day’s Eye, a five-part ode written by the artist. Composed in a stream-of-consciousness style, the text emerges from childhood memories and recent experiences, wavering between lived events and fantasy.

Excerpt from curatorial text by Cristina Vasilescu

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