Stare Up At Me
Kim? Contemporary Art Centre•Jun 19, 2026 — Aug 09, 2026
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Borrowing its title and dramaturgical undercurrent from Madonna’s “Don’t Tell Me” (2000) – a country-pop hallucination of suspended desire, emotional stasis and erotic ambivalence, punctuated by the lines “Tell the bed not to lay/Like the open mouth of a grave/Not to stare up at me/Like a calf down on its knees” – Karlīna Mežecka’s largest solo exhibition to date unfolds in four chapters: “Life”, “Death”, “Dominance” and the closing “Summary”. Through a series of new sculptural and installation-based works, Mežecka foregrounds bodies that appear as unstable figurations, suspended between surface and interior, between what is materially present and what remains imagined.
The unsettling image of a conjoined calf emerges as the exhibition’s central protagonist. In “Dominance”, it is elevated above the viewer, assuming a monumentality that never fully resolves into stability, as its fragility remains visible even at scale. Devotional iconography, infantilised objecthood, a sacrificial…
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Stare Up At Me
Kim? Contemporary Art Centre•Jun 19, 2026 — Aug 09, 2026
Press Release
Borrowing its title and dramaturgical undercurrent from Madonna’s “Don’t Tell Me” (2000) – a country-pop hallucination of suspended desire, emotional stasis and erotic ambivalence, punctuated by the lines “Tell the bed not to lay/Like the open mouth of a grave/Not to stare up at me/Like a calf down on its knees” – Karlīna Mežecka’s largest solo exhibition to date unfolds in four chapters: “Life”, “Death”, “Dominance” and the closing “Summary”. Through a series of new sculptural and installation-based works, Mežecka foregrounds bodies that appear as unstable figurations, suspended between surface and interior, between what is materially present and what remains imagined.
The unsettling image of a conjoined calf emerges as the exhibition’s central protagonist. In “Dominance”, it is elevated above the viewer, assuming a monumentality that never fully resolves into stability, as its fragility remains visible even at scale. Devotional iconography, infantilised objecthood, a sacrificial…
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