Silence Full of Meaning

The world stands still in the presence of meaning. Landscapes linger within moments where the seen and the unseen, the real and the dreamt, converge. The viewer is invited to the edge of the undefined.

Maija Kutin’s works weave symbols reminiscent of dreams, memories, and movements of the subconscious. They manifest as states of mind, quiet gestures, and layered symbolism. The landscapes reveal traces of life, observing the state of society and the individual, reflecting humanity’s search and its echoes.

Objects within the paintings become thresholds to stillness, surrender, and silence. Wandering shoes, frozen mid-journey; elsewhere, a step turns toward a bag resting in the mire. To reach it would be to sink — to disappear along with the very act of attainment. The pursuit of materiality reflects the unease of the individual and mirrors the state of contemporary society — a constant tension between desire and relinquishment. The impossibility of seeing everything permeates the work: the human presence is depicted through objects, absent in bodily form. Stillness without wind makes visible the density of time. The landscapes breathe through the night, where time deepens, layers, and lingers, until it settles into stillness, yet continues to breathe. Sunflowers confront winter and darkness as emblems of life and light.

Kutin’s painterly language is daring and dreamlike. Her forms are organic, soft, and flowing — like tree roots or water moving in slow motion. Strong yet restrained colours, sharp contrasts, and radiant light weave together surrealism, expressionism, and modernism into a deeply personal idiom. Shapes construct both outer and inner worlds. The process itself is unhurried, and calm is transmitted to the viewer. Though sunlight does not directly appear, its presence is felt through the moon, stars, and lanterns that illuminate the hidden depths of the landscape, affirming trust in the unseen.

The exhibition lingers in suspended time, poised at the margin where emptiness leaves a gap. The openness allows space for a spirit that never fully assumes form. The atmosphere of the paintings is both intense and dreamlike, unfolding a silence full of meaning. The viewer enters a realm where the visible and the invisible coexist in the presence of everything.