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Video/Sound installation, 2014
"-Yeah, so I had this idea to build a house out of refrigerators, but haven’t pulled myself together to do it yet. – How? – Old fridges don’t cost anything, right, but they’re great for insulation. Well, so all that’s left is to take a few fridges and stick them together. Maybe even just with macroflex. There. Ideal! Just put them together like lego. Parts can be created with the doors or the shelves inside to create, like, cupboards. Oh, and in general it would just look like deliberate design. Everything covered in fridge doors. Others can be stuck together with the backs toward the inside so they become like heaters. Because there are, like, two different kinds of heat pumps, those that take heat from the earth, and those that take heat from the air. Well... fridges take heat from the air, the air that’s inside them, see? And what’s more, you can save a lot of money, because their electricity use is 1:5, though practically more like 1:3. The only problem is the height, so you’d have to sort them somehow. The idea could be to put higher ones on one side, and shorter ones on the other... but then the ceiling would be hard to make. Yeah, that would be the hard part..."
Artists' Bios:
Katrīna Neiburga graduated from the department of Visual Communication at the Art Academy of Latvia, and studied in Sweden and France. Neiburga creates installations, video and light projections, scenography, video for operas and theatre productions. Since 2000 she actively participates in exhibitions in Latvia and abroad. Neiburga was the first recipient of the Purvītis Prize in 2009.
Andris Eglitis received an MA in painting and studied at the Higher Institute for Fine Arts in Ghent, Belgium. Eglitis has received nominations and won several awards, among them the Purvītis Prize in 2013.