Martins Kohout: Leaving the house with an open fire, but briefly
MeetFactory•Oct 30, 2025 — Jan 11, 2026
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Martins Kohout’s solo exhibition at MeetFactory Gallery, Leaving the house with an open fire, but briefly, is a study in orientation within a world that is interconnected yet elusive. Kohout explores contemporary forms of solitude and sharing, and how global communication reshapes our relations to time, space, and ourselves. Foregrounded are various transitional states or “gaps” in the form of waiting, stalling, scanning for a signal – and the experience of these in threshold spaces, long corridors, and windows understood as interfaces that frame our gaze. In Kohout’s terms, the “gap” is a deliberately engineered spatiotemporal interval – not a void, but a device in the dramaturgy of attention. In the exhibition it reads as a purposeful pause that slows the flow of information, temporarily arrests action, and allows the viewer to re-orient between inside and outside. It produces the feeling of having arrived somewhere ex post – just after the conclusion of an action…
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Martins Kohout: Leaving the house with an open fire, but briefly
MeetFactory•Oct 30, 2025 — Jan 11, 2026
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Martins Kohout’s solo exhibition at MeetFactory Gallery, Leaving the house with an open fire, but briefly, is a study in orientation within a world that is interconnected yet elusive. Kohout explores contemporary forms of solitude and sharing, and how global communication reshapes our relations to time, space, and ourselves. Foregrounded are various transitional states or “gaps” in the form of waiting, stalling, scanning for a signal – and the experience of these in threshold spaces, long corridors, and windows understood as interfaces that frame our gaze. In Kohout’s terms, the “gap” is a deliberately engineered spatiotemporal interval – not a void, but a device in the dramaturgy of attention. In the exhibition it reads as a purposeful pause that slows the flow of information, temporarily arrests action, and allows the viewer to re-orient between inside and outside. It produces the feeling of having arrived somewhere ex post – just after the conclusion of an action…
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