Under the Sun
3D printed resin, watercolor, alcohol ink marker, steel, digital print
Group exhibition at TUR, Riga, Latvia.
Organised in collaboration with 1646.
29/10 – 29/11/2025
Artists: Eric Giraudet de Boudemange, Agnieszka Polska, Līga Spunde, Agate Tūna
Curated by:
Johan Gustavsson (Co-director 1646)
Clara Pallí Monguilod (Co-director 1646)
Edd Schouten (Artistic Director TUR)
Photo by Bob Demper
The exhibition Under the Sun began as a conversation between two contemporary art spaces located on either side of Europe: TUR in Riga and 1646 in The Hague. At a time when Europe’s social and political fabric feels increasingly fragile, it becomes necessary to reinforce cultural relationships and deepen mutual understanding through artistic exchange. Art, at its most vital, opens a space to reflect with nuance, to listen closely, and to respond thoughtfully. From this shared belief in the importance of dialogue grew the foundations of this exhibition: a collaboration shaped by four artistic practices and three curatorial visions from two independent art spaces. The exhibition, in its tone and themes, echoes the impulse that initially brought TUR and 1646 together: a desire to engage with the present through art.
The four artists in this exhibition – Eric Giraudet de Boudemange, Agnieszka Polska, Līga Spunde, and Agate Tūna – were invited for the distinct ways their practices engage with the conditions of contemporary life: how we make sense of the world around us, and how we navigate our place within it. Their works explore how we respond to a time shaped by ecological collapse, war on our borders, rising political unease, technological saturation, and a longing for spiritual grounding. The artists are united by a shared attentiveness to the emotional and ethical dimensions of contemporary life, even as their methods and materials diverge. Within the exhibition, their visions come together as an extended layer of perspective that shifts between planetary, psychological, and metaphysical realms, a constellation made up of distinct sensibilities that overlap and diverge. Together, they invite the viewer to reflect not only on what we see, but on how we respond and what forces shape our capacity to remain present, perceptive, and responsive in this liminal time.
In Under the Sun, the works of Eric Giraudet de Boudemange, Agnieszka Polska, Līga Spunde, and Agate Tūna form an entangled universe. Polska’s video The New Sun casts its presence across the exhibition.Its childlike celestial narrator drifting between melancholy and absurdity as it addresses Earth through surreal monologues, love poems, and prophetic warnings. The sun speaks from above, simultaneously witness and participant, offering a poetic lens on crisis, responsibility, and the fragile cycles of life on Earth. Around this work, Giraudet and Tūna each developed new work that extend their ongoing artistic inquiries while responding to the context of TUR and the themes of the exhibition. Giraudet’s installation centres on two monumental truck forms, both sculptural objects and conceptual vehicles. They anchor an allegorical inquiry into movement, extraction, and exchange, forming a framework of objects and references that evoke the systems through which not only goods, but also values and beliefs, are transported across landscapes. Giraudet’s work reflects on how agricultural cycles shape our relationships to labour, nourishment, and survival, offering a layered perspective on the infrastructures that sustain, and strain, contemporary life.
Tūna’s works hover between recognition and speculation, reflecting on how meaning is projected onto the unknown. Abstract fragments of an original image, which she calls “creative parasites,” are fused together and act like visual glitches or digital debris. As their origins dissolve, they become entities in their own right, neither fully legible nor entirely unfamiliar. In these works, Tūna draws on a visual language of satellites, drones, and elusive aerial objects, as if low-resolution images of the sky invite us to guess at what we’re looking at. Amid the exhibition’s planetary and digital trajectories, Spunde’s work draws us back toward the body and what it means to be human. Her work emerges from a world marked by social fragmentation and psychological fatigue, proposing a space to contemplate human virtues such as empathy, resilience, and inner strength from a place of hope, humor and optimism. Through a visual language shaped by contemporary imagery and symbolic form, she explores how emotional gestures might be practiced, rehearsed, and reclaimed. It is an invitation to consider how we embody care, attention, and integrity in uncertain times.
Installation view of Under the Sun.Works by Eric Giraudet de Boudemange, Agnieszka Polska, Līga Spunde and Agate Tūna. TUR telpa, Riga, Latvia, 2025
Installation view of Under the Sun. Works by Eric Giraudet de Boudemange, Agnieszka Polska, Līga Spunde and Agate Tūna. TUR telpa, Riga, Latvia, 2025
Installation view of Under the Sun. Works by Eric Giraudet de Boudemange, Agnieszka Polska, Līga Spunde and Agate Tūna. TUR telpa, Riga, Latvia, 2025
Installation view of Under the Sun. Works by Eric Giraudet de Boudemange, Agnieszka Polska, Līga Spunde and Agate Tūna. TUR telpa, Riga, Latvia, 2025
Installation view of Under the Sun. Digital print on pvc by Līga Spunde. TUR telpa, Riga, Latvia, 2025
Installation view of Under the Sun. 3D resin print, UV glowing paint by Līga Spunde. TUR telpa, Riga, Latvia, 2025
Installation view of Under the Sun. 3D resin print, UV glowing paint by Līga Spunde. TUR telpa, Riga, Latvia, 2025
Installation view of Under the Sun. 3D resin print, UV glowing paint by Līga Spunde. TUR telpa, Riga, Latvia, 2025
Installation view of Under the Sun. Works by Eric Giraudet de Boudemange, Agnieszka Polska. TUR telpa, Riga, Latvia, 2025
Installation view of Under the Sun. Works by Agate Tūna. TUR telpa, Riga, Latvia, 2025
Installation view of Under the Sun. Works by Līga Spunde, Agate Tūna. TUR telpa, Riga, Latvia, 2025
Installation view of Under the Sun. Digital print on pvc by Līga Spunde. TUR telpa, Riga, Latvia, 2025