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''To inhabit a space and time in a ritualistic manner behind a porous shield of tangible fantasy - while in the midst of a continuous collapse. Level up, a thousand points, check your health, better gear, keep it up, ultra combo, skill issue, another try. The lore goes deep, we are only scratching the surface, inscribing it into earthly materials, into our minds and muscle memory.  One click, a mighty stroke of the sword - what stands against me, I stand against. Outside, time passes, here it accumulates, its weight becoming the proof of a fictitious hero. This experience is finite, but the game is infinite and the goal of it is play itself.
 
In this exhibition the artist invites the viewer to step into a materialised space of the magic circle, a concept often mentioned in game design and experience. Describing the place where play happens, it refers to the mental space and the lusory attitude where one shifts to experience a different realm of sorts, with a set of its own rules, skills and landscape. While seemingly detached, reality seeps through the cracks, still carried in the body and shaped by the conditions of the times we live in.''


From the text of solo show 'Ingress XP' at The Rooster Gallery, curated by Raivis Alksnis.