What Stays When the Shape Leaves Knot
Tatjana Pieters•Feb 15, 2026 — Apr 12, 2026
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TATJANA PIETERS is honoured to invite you to the third solo exhibition by Indrikis Gelzis at the gallery. ‘What Stays When the Shape Leaves Knot’ presents new wall-based sculptural objects using metal, wood, and textiles. Gelzis employs 3D software in his creative process, blending digital technology with natural materials to form abstract, formally nuanced compositions.
The exhibition approaches form as an imprint and the knot as an event. In Gelzis’s works, the knot is neither ornament nor solution. It is an object that occupies a place without a fixed name: an opening, a lack, a potential, a trace of what once existed, and at the same time a construction that refuses to serve memory.
Through practice, material, tightening, tension, and structural discipline, the works compel the gaze to remain with the thing itself. They do not produce images. They produce conditions. The shape may leave, but the knot’s logic remains, like a tightened muscle. The line that stretches, bends, secures…
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What Stays When the Shape Leaves Knot
Tatjana Pieters•Feb 15, 2026 — Apr 12, 2026
Press Release
TATJANA PIETERS is honoured to invite you to the third solo exhibition by Indrikis Gelzis at the gallery. ‘What Stays When the Shape Leaves Knot’ presents new wall-based sculptural objects using metal, wood, and textiles. Gelzis employs 3D software in his creative process, blending digital technology with natural materials to form abstract, formally nuanced compositions.
The exhibition approaches form as an imprint and the knot as an event. In Gelzis’s works, the knot is neither ornament nor solution. It is an object that occupies a place without a fixed name: an opening, a lack, a potential, a trace of what once existed, and at the same time a construction that refuses to serve memory.
Through practice, material, tightening, tension, and structural discipline, the works compel the gaze to remain with the thing itself. They do not produce images. They produce conditions. The shape may leave, but the knot’s logic remains, like a tightened muscle. The line that stretches, bends, secures…






































































