Elīna Vītola

PASTORAAL. AUGUST duo show with Eva Mustonen at  Haapsalu City Gallery in Haapsalu, Estonia.

The collaboration project began when artists Eva Mustonen and Elina Vitola took a caravan trip on the roads of South-Latvia. Bitter thoughts and outlooks sent them on a romanticised search for freedom with the rented caravan symbolising their confusing life. One stop of the ongoing collaboration was the Let’s Find A Way: Off-Season project exhibited at the Kanal Gallery in 2022. Pastoral: August is the next chapter of the journey where the artists face the season of harvest and vacations, abundance and decay. Jars clink in kitchens as petals curl in the month of vanitas. It’s the moment when fullness tips over toward loss. The only thing that is left, are memories. 

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2026

Photography by Mari-Leen Kiipli