Eva Mustonen and Elīna Vītola "Pastoral: August"

On Thursday, 30 April at 5 PM the artists Eva Mustonen and Elīna Vītola will open the exhibition Pastoral: August at the Haapsalu City Gallery. 

The collaboration project began when artists Eva Mustonen and Elīna Vītola took a caravan trip on the roads of South-Latvia. Bitter thoughts and outlooks sent them on a romanticised search for freedom with the rented caravan symbolising their confusing life. One stop of the ongoing collaboration was the Let’s Find A Way: Off-Season project exhibited at the Kanal Gallery in 2022. Pastoral: August is the next chapter of the journey where the artists face the season of harvest and vacations, abundance and decay. Jars clink in kitchens as petals curl in the month of vanitas. It’s the moment when fullness tips over toward loss. The only thing that is left, are memories. 

On the last day of the exhibition, 24 May at 2 PM, Eva Mustonen will hold an embroidery workshop, where you are invited to cross-stitch for example slogans around private property, or swans, or embark on an endless stitching journey that calms your senses while sipping tea. The workshop is free. Bring your good/bad mood or your favourite tablecloth to embroider on. There will also be materials, fabrics and tools provided in the gallery.