A picnic with artist Evita Goze.
Although no one plans to get into dangerous situations, it is valuable to know how to handle them properly. At the picnic with artist Evita Goze, visitors were invited to participate in a self-defense workshop led by professionals, where they learned basic skills on how to defend themselves in case of physical danger.
Before the workshop, the artist introduced her work "Fingerlocks," based on photo illustrations from self-defense manuals from the 1950s-60s. Restaging and recording these scenes, the artist emphasizes the equally oppressive and fulfilling potential of intimate partner relationships and asked the question - is home always the safest place?
Evita Goze (1984) is an artist, journalist, and curator who lives and works in Riga. She is interested in the changing boundaries between reality and fiction, the personal and the political, focusing on issues of identity, bodily and power relations between individuals and the state. Her main medium of expression is photography, but she also uses text, found images, and objects in her works. Goze holds a bachelor's degree in photography from the University of Brighton in the UK and a master's degree in visual communication from the Latvian Academy of Arts. Her works have been exhibited and published in Latvia and abroad. In 2019, her solo exhibition Sardze was on view at the ISSP Gallery in Riga.