The subjects of Päivi Takala's paintings are in refusal. The depicted forms are covered with cloth; the face of the hooded person with back turned cannot be seen, or a further view of the landscape is prevented by an overgrown thicket.
The paintings are limited in information. The subjects are simplified and composed plainly in the middle of the picture. There fore, the paintings have a mood of undisturbed presence and expectation. The individual paintings are like stills from films waiting for the next action to take place.
The thematic of denial in the works makes the whole melancholy and absent. Denial can be seen protecting oneself against the events of the surroundings or as indifference towards them. However, the gentle painterly treatment of the theme makes the works empathetic and understanding.
Emptiness and an expectant mood make the thematic content of the paintings sensitively changing. Another painting placed next to a canvas alters the content of an individual work. The visual narrative between the works makes the mounting of the exhibition a specifically important and delicately transforming element.
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