Date Night, a solo exhibition by Latvian artist Daria Melnikova, is set as a café in which her drawings, collages, sculptures and objects from various periods act as the cafe’s inventory and decorative elements. The exhibition takes the visitor on a visual journey through the motifs of different historical art styles and their pastiches that could be found in furnishing departments of hardware stores, interiors of corporate and private spaces. By blending craftmanship and the pure decorativeness of fine arts together with eclectics of our post-everything condition, Melnikova’s works raise questions about escapism in contemporary art, artists social image, labour, leisure and sources of inspiration. 

Date Night is a new cafe in town. It is also an exhibition about the ability to make art while doing something else.

Date Night

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