Dust Therapy
Installation, lectures, excursions, 2014
My work is an invitation to go on a journey to the Bieriņi neighbourhood on the edge of Riga – the place where they started work on a Sculptors’ Park in the 1980s and 90s. The granite sculptures and the large asphalted field which used to host sculpture symposiums can still be seen there. Sculptors also continue to live in Bieriņi. • The intended project of the park did not come to fruition, but the Mārupīte surroundings preserve signs testifying to the dream of creating an art park. With my work Dust Therapy I want to call attention to these vestiges, to bring them into the present, to play with them, to order and rearrange them and, hopefully, generate some new outlines for the future.
Artist's Bio:
In my creative work I mostly work with exploring space. Space inspires me, it tells me how to fill it, what to highlight, what it wants me to say. This space can be a hall, a room, a gallery, or just as well a landscape, a street, a park, a yard. I look at the space and try to perceive the layers of time, the presence of people, events – that which is beyond the visible and the tangible. I call it internal vision. It means seeing with the whole of myself: with what I am, my experience, emotions, dreams, illusions, fantasies. When I see with internal vision, I can create new forms and they become part of the space.