Blessings At Home
Exhibition and meeting point
What have you learned from the changes in Latvia and worldwide in recent years?
The events of recent years have been an acid test of usefulness. I’ve managed to acquire some practical skills that are useful in housekeeping. Events from the city’s bars, clubs and cafés have moved to home – more and more often I happen to perceive the whole city as home. As a result, I have a greater conviction that taking part is worth it, and that the lives of the city and the individual are mutually interwoven.
What is the connection between your SURVIVAL KIT2 project and the festival theme?
Currently, barter has returned by storm to the chain of the circulation of objects. Society is more open to the exchange of something which isn’t money than it would have been a few years ago. Therefore it’s the right time to create thematic centres where one can simply exchange something you own – in this case, for indoor plants. Plants are one of the options to create one’s own world in a city apartment thus realising a substantial precondition for survival – emotional satisfaction and the joy of living. And in order to give a deeper meaning to this project in particular – those plants which won’t find a new owner in Blessings at Home will be sent to a children’s hospital where they’ll bring joy to the little patients and their parents.
Why haven’t you left yet?
Frankly speaking, leaving has never occurred to us.