“Laivi’s exhibition “Fragmented Unity" is a glimpse into the artist's inner world, where one can find beautiful ambiguity, haunting silence, and a good dose of restlessness.” Olivia Soans, Sirp 13.10.2024

“Today, I am neutral. Expressively unexpressive. A blank canvas. A white t-shirt* on bare skin. Faithful. I am free, wrapped in a swathe of possibilities. Full in emptiness.
In the mundane grip of conformity, I yearn to yearn. To be something more. To stand apart. To be a dress like a story. A layered narrative where contrasts meet and merge at the seams. To flow in dispersed definition. I want to try to defy...
I strive to be overtly unattainable in my inner multiplicity. Elusive, like a text brimming with references. Unaware even of my own secrets and abilities. 

I can fray; you can wear me in many ways. Find hints and hidden spaces. To be contradictory. To be sincere and innocent and grumpy and sinful.”**

** In theorizing the nature of fashion, we examine a phenomenon that extends beyond the superficial appearance of its objects. We seek depth within the surface. It is the everyday environment that creates the divide between fashion and clothing. We submit to paradoxes. In a continuous, self-consuming cycle, the repetition and defiance of what came before becomes the newest trend.