Gallery Late – "TP054K-01xG" Alīna Burlakova and Viktorija Galkina

TP054K-01xG is a duo exhibition by Alīna Burlakova and Viktorija Galkina in which a series of large-scale paintings interacts with a metal sculpture, transforming the space into an abstract field of visual dialogue. This exhibition captures the fragmentation of perception and experience in an era where visual information continuously overlaps and loses a stable center of meaning.  

The white tonality and the aesthetics of apparent emptiness can be understood as a situation in which the meaning of contemporary art is not predetermined but arises through the process of interpretation, as emphasized by Stephen Bann and William Allen in Interpreting Contemporary Art (1998), when discussing the pluralism of interpretation and the active role of the viewer in constructing meaning. From this perspective, the artwork is not a closed object with a single meaning, but an open structure in which institutional context, the viewer’s experience, and theoretical frameworks together shape what is perceived as “visible.”

In this context, the exhibition becomes a space where the viewer does not simply “see” the work, but participates in its formation through their presence.  

Is this whiteness silence or abundance? Do the industrial pipes in the space function as a sign of alienation, or, on the contrary, as a bridge between bodily experience and the mechanical world in which we live? Perhaps, as the French philosopher Jean Baudrillard suggests in Simulacra and Simulation (1981), we are confronted here with simulation—not a representation of reality, but its very structure without a center, without an original. And if so, the question is no longer “what does it mean?”, but rather “how do we orient ourselves within this absence of meaning?”  

In this exhibition, the title—TP054K-01xG—serves as a provisional point of orientation. Most likely, it is merely a reference that helps one move from point A to point B. It does not explain or interpret, but marks presence—an event in a specific place and time, as a conditional designation or code. In this sense, “TP054K-01xG” functions as an encrypted unit—without direct semantic attachment, it rejects narrative and leaves space for indeterminacy, becoming a key to individual interpretation.

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