Fear
Space installation, dry point, 2015
A light left on for the night, alarm, guard dogs, weapons, passwords, diets and vaccines. It is all because of the fears of the people around us, illnesses, death, fears from losing some kind of property or fears from ourselves. Isn’t there something else behind these formal reasons? The works done in the intaglio printing technique aims to reveal a set of rituals that we do when being afraid of things and phenomena. According to that, different either casual or very strange expressions of fears have been summarized, making one think of how far the reflexes can go and what the possible consequences can be.
Artist's Bio:
Kristians Brekte holds MA in Stage Design from the Art Academy of Latvia and currently is the Associate Professor of this department, as well as the Head of the Department of Environmental Art. He continues to have an active practice and has been part of group exhibitions across the world, including New York, Vilnius, Berlin, Moscow and Vienna. Brekte’s work has been included in the catalogue “Younger Than Jesus” (2009) published by Phaidon, UK. His work is in the collection of the Latvian National Museum of Art as well as in private collections in Latvia and abroad.