Beggar
Video, 20’, 2012
Charcoal – feet – raft – ashes – smoked – towers or an insight into Edmunds’ personality: whose most long-standing achievement is to be free to do pleasing things. If freedom is the ability to orient one’s self in the given circumstances, then a conclusion follows that quick-witted individuals are most able to adapt to certain conditions and use them to their favour. Disregarding the means of self-actualisation typical of consumer society, Edmunds brings a contemplative tone to such categories as rich and poor. Daily provocations are attempts to revise entrenched ideas and look for like-minded individuals.
Artist's Bio:
Vladimirs Jakušonoks is more widely known as the initiator and member of the Bolderāja group. The Bolderāja group is actively shaping and protecting the environment of Bolderāja – both by organizing art projects, exhibitions, excursions and protesting against environmental pollution and questionable city development plans.
Kristīne Liniņa works as a curator in the exhibition department of the Latvian National Library.