Retouch
Spatial installation, 2015
Inga Meldere’s project Retouch anticipates moving into one of the festival’s premises, uncovering its walls and supplementing them with the fragments of wall paintings or fictive and retouched, like they have always been there, originals. With the use of the image system, that the spectators may be aware of already, there will be a visual narrative created on the walls of the building. The fragments of paintings in the narrative are going to be an interpretation, the retouching of memories about a person’s experience and observations, that have resulted in, what concept of festival has already mentioned – “the avalanche of fortuitousness, and a surprising chain of coincidences, weaving together private and global space”.
Artist's Bio:
Inga Meldere holds BA degree at the University of Latvia (Faculty of Education, Psychology and Art) in visual art and the history of art in 2001. She holds a bachelor’s and master’s degree Restauration department in the Art Academy of Latvia (2007). She has studied at the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht (Netherlands) from 2013 to 2014. There has been nine solo exhibitions organized either in Latvia or other countries since 2007. The artist has participated in more than 20 group exhibitions in Latvia and abroad where her works have paid attention to many international curators of exhibitions. Inga Meldere’s works are exhibited in Kiasma – Museum of Contemporary Art in Helsinki.