Lembe Ruben “Between the Point and the Line”

On Friday, 19 June at 5:00 p.m., Lembe Ruben will open her solo exhibition “Between the Point and the Line” in the small gallery of the Tartu Art House. 

In her work, the artist explores the connections between the point and the line, and between the beginning and the end. The starting point is always the seed of the end point. Does every first impulse already contain the entire possible trajectory? Where does the point arise that sets a person in motion, the invisible cause that gives shape to will and meaning to direction?

Being is the movement of objects from one point to another. So that this does not remain a meaningless motion of molecules, we have been given free will: an end point we wish to reach.

This is also a simplified formula of creation, to which all that exists and all creative work can be reduced: the point and the line, or state and direction. Everything created, both biological and spiritual, is born from the tension between these two.

We bustle about as if within a closed space, each of us moving within the boundaries of our own territory, each with our own aims. The modern illness — depression — is the absence of the will power to give molecules direction and an end point. There are so many directions and expectations. To remain on the line requires constant balance.

“The end point is easily lost, because alongside the instinct for survival, our era is filled with countless ideologies capable of moving people toward places their imaginations could never reach: in times of conflict, even toward directions harmful and unnecessary to the individual. Obstacles alter trajectories,” the artist explains.

Lembe Ruben (b. 1974) graduated from the Estonian Academy of Arts with a degree in graphic arts and holds a master’s degree in fine arts. She has furthered her studies in psychology and art therapy at Tallinn University. Ruben has had 17 solo exhibitions and has participated in various group exhibitions both in Estonia and abroad. In 2011, she received the Wiiralt Young Artist Award. In addition to her exhibition activities, Ruben has taught graphic design, drawing and composition at the Estonian Academy of Arts, the University of Tartu Viljandi Culture Academy and elsewhere.

The exhibition will be open until 19 July.

Additional information:
Maret Tamme
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The Tartu Art House (Vanemuise 26) is open Wed–Mon 12.00–18.00. All exhibitions are free of charge.
The exhibition activities in the Tartu Art House are supported by the Tartu city government and the Cultural Endowment of Estonia.