Cult
Objects, 2013
A comnentary on Latvia’s local situation, in which two radically different world views are forced to exist side by side with each other. One – a pro-Moscow oriented group of people who would rather see Latvia as Russian territory and who still continue to maintain the mythologized view about the USSR. The second – which despairingly “defends” its fatherland from the Occupiers. With the help of the media, both groups are subject to massive ideological manipulation. It’s easier to blame some abstract external power for your worries, than to search for the root of the problem in oneself. The impression does arise that the ruling cliques on both sides are well aware of the old saying: “Divide and conquer!”
(K.V.)
Artist's Bio:
Graduated from the LAA’s Department of Painting in 2003. Has created 8 solo exhibitions, and participated in group exhibitions. The author of a number of animation films. Has recently begun to focus on multi media. In art, mythological expressions of thinking and their reflection in a contemporary context interest him. Researches consumer culture and the “cult of positivism”, which offers looking the other way rather than solving problems, in this way creating an absurd thinking model and relationships between things or people.