GALLERY KATARIINA | Jesse Avdeikov: The Mist of Solitude August 26 – September 11, 2022

Gallery Katariina presents the exhibition The Mist of Solitude by Jesse Avdeikov from August 26th until September 11th 2022.  

Welcome to the exhibition opening on Thursday 25th August from 5 to 7pm!   

We follow the current guidelines by Regional State Administrative Agencies to ensure a safe exhibition visit. 

Image: The Mist of Solitude (Jesse Avdeikov)

Jesse Avdeikov: The Mist of Solitude

‘I’m looking for my place in this world, like everyone else. Sometimes I feel that facing other people takes all my strength and I wish I would just be left alone. Feeling susceptible and sensitive, like some of my energy could detach from me while encountering them. I wish I could somehow tell it to them without seeming rude or angry, but it can be quite challenging at times. 

Sometimes ending up alone and losing meaning in someone else’s eyes is my worst fear, that’s why I have a tendency to beg annoyingly for a lot of attention. I’m afraid of a thought that I could be forgotten, pushed aside, left alone – without a purpose. 

Maybe this is the middle ground between these two viewpoints, that I want to be alone but at the same time it is my worst fear. They rub against each other, causing friction, giving birth to aspiration towards something. Never becoming ready, but always having some direction, maybe forward, towards a change. Alone among others.’ 

The core idea of Jesse Avdeikov's exhibition The Mist of Solitude started from the diversity of loneliness and from Avdeikov's concern about the different experiences of feeling impartiality by people close to him. Social media, pandemic and remote working have all in their own way changed or made the situation worse. 

‘One brush stroke and a piece of thread at the time, I set them side by side and on top of each other to make pictures. The process resembles a cross between meditation and a handicraft. Each one of them has a purpose and in a broader sense my intent is to transform my idea, vision or a feeling into the form of an art piece. Interpretation of the final piece of work is often different from the original idea and maybe it’s better that way. Together with you, the exhibition visitor, we form the content of what this exhibition is ultimately about.’ 

 

Jesse Avdeikov (b. 1986) is an artist working in the mediums of painting, writing, embroidery and installation. His works stem from an autobiographical place, and stories are important to him. His art addresses themes such as friendship, different lifestyles, the importance of enjoyment, loneliness as well as birth and death. He is inspired by YouTube videos, the classic art of painting, dogs, thinking about sad things and the absurd aspects of life.  

Avdeikov earned his Master of Fine Arts degree from the Academy of Fine Arts of the University of the Arts Helsinki in June 2020. Avdeikov’s artistic work is supported by The Arts Promotion Centre Finland (Taike).