“This work and the one preceding it form a unified narrative — two absurd, yet deeply human episodes that reveal Juris Putrāms’ distinctive ability to transform everyday situations into performative experience. In the first part, an accidental encounter in a gallery turns into an unexpected catastrophe, where body and fate intertwine in an almost comic collision. In the second part, the story continues at the moment when help has already been called, yet the rescuers themselves are thrown into confusion — where should one take a person who stands on the border between injury and absurdity?
Juris Putrāms shows how often life places us in situations where no clearly correct solution exists. Between logic and absurdity, between humor and pain, between performance and document — the viewer is invited to see the story as an open process, in which decisions and consequences are as unpredictable as the human being himself.”
Juris Putrāms
"Take to a psychiatric hospital or trauma center?", 2022, paper / print / author's signature, 29 x 21 cm.
Price: 150 €
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“This work and the one preceding it form a unified narrative — two absurd, yet deeply human episodes that reveal Juris Putrāms’ distinctive ability to transform everyday situations into performative experience. In the first part, an accidental encounter in a gallery turns into an unexpected catastrophe, where body and fate intertwine in an almost comic collision. In the second part, the story continues at the moment when help has already been called, yet the rescuers themselves are thrown into confusion — where should one take a person who stands on the border between injury and absurdity?
Juris Putrāms shows how often life places us in situations where no clearly correct solution exists. Between logic and absurdity, between humor and pain, between performance and document — the viewer is invited to see the story as an open process, in which decisions and consequences are as unpredictable as the human being himself.”