The Day the Line bent into a Spiral
2025
duo-exhibition with Eugenio Marini in EKA Gallery, Tallinn

We don’t know the exact day the line bent into a spiral. At some point, it was simply happening—twisting ever forward, spinning as it turned. In the beginning, perhaps it all moved a little slower—the bending and the spinning—and already then, we were inside it.

“The Day the Line Bent into a Spiral” brings together works, material experiments, and found objects created and collected over the course of nearly a year by artists Eugenio Marini and Ingrid Helena Pajo. The main principle for building this collection of fragments was to work with a single idea for no longer than a week — both in parallel and in collaboration. Another key aspect was the associative threads that emerged while working with the materials: allowing these to carry the artists along, and pausing from time to time somewhere in the middle of the process. While the material may suggest a direction, in the end each form speaks about the artists’ themselves and their temporary states. The exhibition becomes a kind of a diary, written in an unknowable order, along curved lines and invites the viewer turn with back along this line—summoning memory, and rowing way back to the starting point through the spiral labyrinth.

This exhibiton project is third duo-exhibition of Eugenio Marini and Ingrid Helena Pajo, who have been combining their backgrounds in sculpture and textile by collaborating regularly since 2022.