Maarit Murka is mostly known as photorealistic painter who tells her own personal stories that are accompanied with the irony and joking on social background. In the context of „Out of context“ she doesn’t deal with certain theme or problem, but takes a step backward, to the prior stadium of a concrete context. Surrounding environment where the unborn works starts to form needs to be designed and cleaned, it needs to be filled with elements and thoughts to make a base for further creation. In this stage there is lot of questions, uncertainty and fear. All that is unnecessary needs to be thought through and cleaned out so that often only a small part of the inital position will remain. It is the part of the creation process that usually won’t be exposed.

Artist has caught the jumping road of thoughts and set herself into inconvenient situation where the mistakes not the perfections are exposed in front of audience. These thoughts here have rather energetic and cognitive shades than these of physical beauty and skillfull composition. The painting itself isn’t so important as is the sign of form that is looked for by mind and senses. Artist hasn’t been painting, she has been searching it, process is more painful than pain itself.

A room in classical physics is three- dimensional space, which allows to describe the location of the body with three dimensions. Every different distance is unique modification of the room. „Mindroom“ is the conscious state of Murka as well as base and source of her painting series with the very same name. Artist is experimenting with relationship of human mind in and out of conscious and subconscious room. The nature and interior motives are tested by the artist and put to new perspectives with modern elements surrounding us. Artworks provide symbols to audience which create connections between room and form and through these connections give a better perception of space. 

The mental state of humans has never been as inattentive as nowadays. Being connected and present every moment and yet always distant from primitive social and natural elements is part of the new generation. Humans want to control everything, including nature, but without sensing the basic elements it is impossible task. The artwork of Murka literally puts the painting into new perspective with the positioning of artwork in gallery room, distorting the space with shaped canvas and natural motives in the unnatural environment. We must all accept the illusions of art and change our living patterns by admitting the reality- we are not in control but part of it. 

The works from Maarit Murka can be viewed on the website of Haus Gallery here. At the same time there is a special fair auction opened on our web-auctions site Online Arthaus.