Rebeka Vaino
Eyes of the skin
2024
07.01 - 16.03.2024
The Eyes of the Skin is a two person exhibition of Rebeka Vaino & Alfred Worrall taking inspiration from “The Eyes of the Skin” by the Finnish architect Juhani Pallasmaa as a point of entry, not intending to discuss the relationship
between the body and architecture, but rather seeks to juxtapose the corporeality and visual variations through Rebeka Vaino and Alfred Worrall’s works.
Link to the exhibition page of the gallery:
The Eyes of the Skin, Gallery DaSein
Interview with Rebeka Vaino
Alfred Worrall's realistic expressionist paintings draw from objects sourced on eBay, reassembled in the studio and freed from their original proportions to produce new, defamiliarised narratives. Everyday scenes become layered collages of vectorised time and space, evoking video game fragments where presence and absence, closeness and distance, uneasily fluctuate. Whether these scenes reflect the artist's own memory remains deliberately uncertain.
Rebeka Vaino's work traces the physical and linguistic transformations of a gendered body — fingernail scratches, dried latex, handcrafted wooden strips, trembling post-hangover lines. Fluid between painting and sculpture, her practice dissolves the boundary between self and world through the simultaneous pull of vision and sensation, building intimacy while inducing unease.
Together, the works invite us to move beyond the narrowing quality of literal sight, toward a perspective that extends throughout the body's inner and outer realms. The eyes of the skin represent an invisible tactile connection between the conscious and unconscious — the body enriched by memory and dream, the senses superimposed. As Cézanne suggested, we can see the odour of things.
- Gallery DaSein