The Vytautas Kasiulis Museum has just received an exhibition at the Kumu Museum in Tallinn, dedicated to the work of three Baltic artists - Malle Leis (1940-2017), Maija Tabaka (1939) and Marija Teresė Rožanskaitė (1933-2007) - from the late Soviet era - the 1980s and 1990s. The title Unframed refers not only to the boundaries broken by the works of all three artists, but also to the new horizons of interpretation that each work creates for the perception of the other two. All three artists have created works in which their heroine steps out of the space of the painting and turns her back on the viewer, revealing visual metaphors of exit or penetration into new territory. In other paintings, the artists play with multiple frames, disrupting the sense of a stable and unified reality. Leis, Tabaka and Rožanskaitė were all exceptional artists in Soviet-occupied Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. The education they received at art institutes in Tallinn, Riga and Vilnius in the 1960s and 1970s was similar in its ideological and aesthetic principles, but they quickly broke out of those principles: they did not necessarily oppose the artistic tide of those schools directly, but they dove into those waters in such a way as to dislodge the seemingly self-evident motifs and gestures, and to submerge the meanings into the murkiness of the uncertainty.