The Endless Knot
14 JAN - 28 FEB 2023, Lkham Gallery, Ulaanbaatar, MGLThe Endless Knot brings together works by artists from Mongolia and Buryatia to explore the imaginaries formed by shared culture and spirituality. For Lkham Gallery’s first group show, we have drawn inspiration from one of the Eight Auspicious Symbols of Buddhism and invite viewers to consider the entangled nature of our world.
Writing Without Writing, 2023
ink on paper, 39 x 39 cm
Writing without Writing amplifies the pure act of writing itself. Reminiscent of traditional Mongolian script, the visual language of these works subtly traces the genealogical point of depar-ture and reflects on an amalgamated lineage of writing systems.
On Bogd Khan Mountain: The Bared Below, 25.11.22, -30 °C, 2022
ink on linen, 138x170cm
“On Bogd Khan Mountain: The Bared Below” were created in collaboration with the sacred Bogd Khan mountain and even the current season’s byproducts of snow and ice. The subject of the works are lightning-struck tree-stumps that expose what is usually not to be seen, under the earth.
There is a vast field of these burnt and bared tree-stumps on Baruun Shireet of Bogd Khan Mountain. They are almost like ready-made sculptures—uncanny and inevitably chthonic.
With the intention to capture and replicate this phenomenon, while respecting and leaving its original and natural state untouched, the tree-stumps were draped and wrapped in linen and then brushed over with ink, tracing the shape of the tree-stump.
These ripped-out-of-the-earth tree-stumps expose and bring to light a fragment of an endless interwoven underground net of roots, reaching far beyond imagination.
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On Bogd Khan Mountain: The Bared Below, 13.12.22, -27 °C, 2022
acrylic ink, ink on linen, 138x170cm
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There is a vast field of these burnt and bared tree-stumps on Baruun Shireet of Bogd Khan Mountain. They are almost like ready-made sculptures—uncanny and inevitably chthonic.
With the intention to capture and replicate this phenomenon, while respecting and leaving its original and natural state untouched, the tree-stumps were draped and wrapped in linen and then brushed over with ink, tracing the shape of the tree-stump.
These ripped-out-of-the-earth tree-stumps expose and bring to light a fragment of an endless interwoven underground net of roots, reaching far beyond imagination.
On Bogd Khan Mountain: The Bared Below, 13.12.22, -27 °C, 2022
acrylic ink, ink on linen, 138x170cm
“On Bogd Khan Mountain: The Bared Below” were created in collaboration with the sacred Bogd Khan mountain and even the current season’s byproducts of snow and ice. The subject of the works are lightning-struck tree-stumps that expose what is usually not to be seen, under the earth.
There is a vast field of these burnt and bared tree-stumps on Baruun Shireet of Bogd Khan Mountain. They are almost like ready-made sculptures—uncanny and inevitably chthonic.
With the intention to capture and replicate this phenomenon, while respecting and leaving its original and natural state untouched, the tree-stumps were draped and wrapped in linen and then brushed over with ink, tracing the shape of the tree-stump.
These ripped-out-of-the-earth tree-stumps expose and bring to light a fragment of an endless interwoven underground net of roots, reaching far beyond imagination.
There is a vast field of these burnt and bared tree-stumps on Baruun Shireet of Bogd Khan Mountain. They are almost like ready-made sculptures—uncanny and inevitably chthonic.
With the intention to capture and replicate this phenomenon, while respecting and leaving its original and natural state untouched, the tree-stumps were draped and wrapped in linen and then brushed over with ink, tracing the shape of the tree-stump.
These ripped-out-of-the-earth tree-stumps expose and bring to light a fragment of an endless interwoven underground net of roots, reaching far beyond imagination.
acrylics on linen, silk
103x137cm
Axis mundi is a universal symbol across various cultures, cosmologies and mythologies. In essence, it speaks of the connection of Heaven and Earth and acts as a cosmic axis, which also have been named as the world tree, or world river or the center of the world. But axis mundi also has a sublime link to the most miniscule. The work “Axis Mundi: Paradigm” aims to depict this universal connection between the psyche, the microcosmos and the macrocosmos, and the movement of energy and matter.
Artist talk, held as part of the public program, January 14th
exhibition documentation by Nima Khibkhenov