Challengeable Heritability, Look! gallery, 2023

Look! Gallery, Rīga, Latvia, 02 – 25 / 02 / 2023

Mixed media installation

Artist through the nostalgic routines and heritability of the skills & knowledge from the previous generations within the framework of one region or country will spotlight the questions about the components of Latvian identity. There’ll be accented usual passion for presenting the details and products that are presumably insignificant elsewhere. 

During the exhibition, visitors are invited to experience authors presence in the gallery to create a space for a daily conversation about how the habits, in which we were born or settled down, apparently determine who we are, what we do, what we do for a living and what we consume? Where are the meanings of practicing knowledge and skills gathered by the ancestors so patriotically? Selected objects, images, video fragments, regular fermentation and preparation of the rye flour products as well the displaying of the bread in the gallery window – vitrine is becoming an excuse to analyse this sweet–sour aftertaste bitterness and enjoy the pleasure of these aesthetics.

Text: Annemarija Gulbe

Curator: Raivis Alksnis

Photography: Annemarija Gulbe