The opening exhibition of ASNI Gallery "Unparalleled Surrealities", through the works of three young painters - Katrīna Biksone, Ieva Putniņa and Dāvis Ozols - invites to take a look at the role of surreality in today's art. The three seemingly diverse new generation Latvian artists have chosen painting as their medium, including in their themes a heightened interest in the human unconscious and especially its manifestations in dreams. Although each of them is characterized by a different approach to the environment and the image contained in the painting, there is an undeniable sense of surreality or trans-realism in their work. The work of these young artists demonstrates the adaptation of surrealism as a concept to the current time and context, and the inherent possibility of the painter to push the boundaries of one particular idea.

Katrīna Biksone's painting is a space where human realities, fantasy, the supernatural and everyday events collide. Every day recognisable objects and the human body become part of a system of images in her paintings, which interpret reality through a prism of mystery and emotional saturation. Each work has an autonomous quality, at the same time, they function as episodes and create an interconnected narrative. Biksone's works are like parallel perceptions of the world, which the viewer observes through an imaginary keyhole, thus becoming not only the perceiver of the paintings but also a participant in the situations.

Ieva Putniņa has a hyper-realistic and meticulously artisanal tendency to get close to the essence of the original (subject, observation, object) that interests her at a given moment. You will find a collection of personal treasures belonging to the artist - it can be a withered nightjar, or a supernaturally large grasshopper that has wandered into an uncharacteristic landscape, a dry sandy cairn. If you look into the sandy river, you'll also find a miniature dolphin playfully leaping into the water. Putnina's surrealism is based, more or less, on true events, which are placed in a supernatural context in her paintings.

The latest series of works by the painter Dāvis Ozols is created using the airbrush technique, drawing both very fine and blurred lines. Nostalgic bodily forms, surrounded by tonal transitions, merge into one another and evoke associations with the shapes of everyday objects. The image of a woman of exalted beauty shines in the light of dust and stars, in tune with the softly surreal aesthetic of Maija Tabaka and the Polish artist Tamara de Lempicka. Equally important in Ozols’s work are references to psychedelic rock (e.g. the legendary 1970s band Status Quo), 1980s fashion, the kitsch of contemporary beauty seen in beauty salons and the gym.