Continuous Choice
Installation, 2012
The more I look in all directions, the more I see. And the stuff worth looking at is always increasing. As I understand, choice is the advantage of self-conscious creatures. Maybe I am such a creature as well. But then again – the more self-conscious I am, the more... But I don’t get desperate - because I find it interesting. And if this “drawing machine” seemed to be just a nice toy at first, now I think more often that I have created my own self-portrait. An idealised self-portrait, as I am not really as good as this. I probably make the wrong choice from time to time. (K.U.)
Artist's Bio:
Klāvs Upaciers has graduated from the Department of Visual Communication at the Art Academy of Latvia. In his works he deliberately sticks to simplicity and contemporary forms of naive art, following his own conviction that traditional hand drawing still has a lot of unrealized potential. The subject of Upaciers’ works, put in his own words is ”something that is noticed here and now”. At the same time he avoids using clearly recognizable characters, considering this as a function that is better left for words. Together with Brigita Zelča Upaciers took part in SURVIVAL KIT 3 with an interactive drawing installation where the audience was invited to use a technique (well known since childhood) to obtaining colourful replicas of coins which were later used to create a landscape of Latvia. The works of Upacieris have been also displayed in the exhibitions of the Department of Visual Communication: “Laika nav”, “Stādions”, as well as a student-protest exhibition “Kultūrbloks” in the territory of VEF and in the exhibition “Rough art for rough men” in Brasa prison.