My works as part of exhibition “Hybrid overflights” at LNMM izstāžu zāle Arsenāls

Thanks to Irēna Bužinska, I had a chance to exhibit couple of my works at her curated exhibition “Hybrid overflights” at LNMM izstāžu zāle Arsenāls in Riga, Latvia.

Exhibition is a story about possibilities wich photography and photo camera can offer to an artist.  

I had an honor to be exhibited with such Latvian great artists as  

Janis Rozentāls and Maija Tabaka, whom I had admired since childhood and had never even dreamed of being exhibited at the same place.

 

http://www.fotoblog.lv/rep/25055/?cid=47820

 

Looking for Mongol princess

Visual story or image sequence I created to invite viewer to create story for himself while watching.

I imagined and made three rabbit-like creatures, which assembles a family. They travel around a mysterious labyrinth, which really is my flat, as for them it a series of obstacles they have to over come in order to get out and find a mysterious princess.

When creating this work I remembered how, when I was little I liked to walk around flat with mirror under my nose and looking down but seeing sealing. It creates an illusion of walking in other unfamiliar place rather then your flat, it feels as if you walking upside down. I created creatures, which is not familiar with my living space and tried to visualize their journey thru it.

This how it looked in the exhibition space:

Image sequence from failed attempt to make dog-goblin double portrait

My grandma

 

My grandma, from whose tights collection I have made most of my puppets. The idea to make human figures from tights came when I saw my grandma’s huge travelling bag full of stockings she had saved during her life time, she were saving them because she couldn’t stand the waste of the delicate peace of closing specially that it could be worn only once and it rips. She hoped to stitch them one day. As a looked at these different shades of materials I realised it could become a creatures face as material is so similar to humans skin and basically we use it as a second skin to hide imperfections on our own.

 

Exhibition as a part of Latgalian music festival ‘MUZYKYS SKRYTUĻS’ in Līksna

As I am from the Latvia’s eastern region called Latgale, I was very excited to be invited to make an exhibition in Līksna during the Latgalian music festival. This festival is different from others in Latvia because it presents exclusively modern musicians singing in latgalian – old Latvian dialect, which is still used by few in Latgale.

http://lakuga.lv/posts/muzykys-skrutuls-byus/

 

One of my photographs was chosen to be used as festival’s poster and flayer image. 

 

 

Exhibition in J.Raiņa māja Berķenelē (July-August 2011)

http://www.ltg.lv/raina.maja.berkenele
http://www.visitdaugavpils.lv/index.php?id=74&p=3

Exhibition space, in which I had an honor to exhibit my works, is located in Latvijas one of the most famous poet’s J.Rainis home.  It is now his memorial, exhibition space, guesthouse where to spend holidays and organise summer camps as well as educational space for young.  

 

All around the territory of the house can be found curious objects.

 

 

I have to say big thank you to my mum and dad organising the exhibition and especially to my sister Anna who worked hard to help me to put up and exhibition.