Thank You For Your Time

Solo show  at Keskpuur, Tallinn, Estonia
21.03. 2026 – 19.04.2026




Keskpuur is pleased to present Krišjānis Beļavskis’ solo exhibition Thank You For Your Time. This new series of works builds on the residue of the project Open Call from 2024, where Beļavskis made an open call to invite one participate to sit in the studio and observe him working, after a selection of formal job interviews, one winner of the open call was chosen and invited to observe Beļavskis working on a series of sculptures. The selected participant was paid €10.00 per hour, which is the average gross hourly wage in Latvia (as of the end of 2023). The only requirements were that they could not leave the studio during the working hours and were not allowed to engage in their own activities. A contract was signed, and over the course of 10 hours, a group of styrofoam sculptures was created. A number of them have been cast in aluminum for this exhibition.
Thank You For Your Time explores the themes of labour, authorship and the roles of the spectator. The artist performed manual labour for ten hours while the participant engaged a constant observation of his work. Within this relationship, the participant became part of the labour, a form of mental labour that often uses looking, observing, and scrutinizing. The hierarchy of labour therefore becomes blurry, they are not equal but interdependent. The work highlights what kind of relations are required for the work to exist, 1. The open call that gathers a pool of contestants to be interviewed and selected 2. The contract that holds a legal framework that defines the authorship of the work and the requirements of the labour 3. The labour that requires the artist and the participant to enact their roles together. The title Thank You For Your Time also suggests viewers as a form of mental labour, simply thanking the visitors for taking their time to visit the exhibition and to observe the works. The premise of the work lies less in the articulation of a predetermined agenda, and more in the doing itself. It operates through a simple proposition: do thing A and see whether thing B emerges from it.

Curated by: Kwan Kit Lau (KitKit Para)
Documentation: © Kwan Kit Lau (KitKit Para) – Keskpuur
Supported by: The State Culture Capital Foundation (SCFF) and Cultural Endowment of Estonia