Ķemeri Sanatorium Park
Installation, 2014
A map always has several possible entrances and exits, as it is an open construction that offers choices on where to go, how to proceed. It introduces the biography of the Ķemeri Sanatorium and its surroundings, and reveals the multifaceted reality as a spatial narrative. An existing place, transplanted into a model undergoes changes. Creating new situations, removing the real and combining it with archival materials or imagination thus becomes possible. The most impressive and popular building of the first Latvian republic, also known as "The White Ship" – Ķemeri hotel was built in 1936 after the project of Eižens Laube. As a result of unsuccessful privatisation, investor activity and other uncoordinated actions, the proud "White Ship" is falling apart and the park is overgrown. The sanatorium has not found its owner and no one comes to its auctions. Believing it is possible to restart the processes of the sanatorium, the piece blends past and future, sentiment and imagination.
Artists' Bios:
Amanda Ziemele strives to find and explore the relationships between abstract and real objects and processes. She tends to combine meanings and transform objects, using metaphor as a means of expression, thereby offering her own version of the possible visual image of these processes.
Margarieta Dreiblate: "My best solo exhibition, - "Main Stories In Brief" in Madona. The most interesting group exhibition – "Unceasing" curated by Iliana Veinberga at kim? Contempoary Art Centre. The most enjoyable creative collaboration has been with the members of "Dirty Deal Audio", and the greatest satisfaction has come from designing the setting for the annual experimental music seminars "Brīnumu nakts" in Madona.