Last series by Zenta Dzividzinska on view in Cēsis Concert Hall art gallery

Artist and photographer Zenta Dzividzinska's (1944-2011) last series Servitude (2002-2007), large-scale black-and-white photographs, are included in the exhibition Sense of Home at the art gallery of Cēsis Concert Hall, Cēsis, Latvia, February 5 - April 10, 2022.

The exhibition is organized by curators Inese Baranovska and Astrīda Rogule.

Other artists in the exhibition include Kristīne Kursiša, Egons Spuris, Monika Pormale and Alvis Hermanis, Kristaps Ģelzis, Alnis Stakle, and Tuomo Manninen.

Entrance is free, gallery is open every day.

The curators about the exhibition:

In this exhibition, we aim to introduce the viewer to a selection of works stored at the Latvian National Museum of Art, most of which are part of the collection of the upcoming Museum of Contemporary Art. Sadly, the idea of the museum is still no more than just that, an idea, and for this reason we are happy for this opportunity to put at least part of the works on view. Contemporary art is created by authors who are our peers and who in their works reflect on events and feelings that are familiar and make sense to all of us. It is a glimpse of times in our long-gone or quite recent past, recorded through the sensitive lens of creative personalities. On this particular occasion, we are focusing on photography, one of the most democratic and vivid art media of the second half of the 20th century and the early 21st century.
Two brilliant classic Latvian photography artists are represented at the exhibition ‒ Egons Spuris and Zenta Dzividzinska, whose ascetic black-and-white style of photography is often described as subjective realism. (. . . ) In her ‘Servitude’ series, Zenta Dzividzinska makes a seemingly dispassionate record of the life cycle of a single garden house ‒ from its construction to the first spring bloom, harvest and winter when it is already time to start thinking about the next year’s cycle. The series can also be read as a hymn to the Latvian work ethics and traditions.

Read more about the exhibition on the Cēsis Concert Hall art gallery website: https://www.cesukoncertzale.lv/en/exhibitions/sense-of-home

Download the press release as PDF here.

Press release in Latvian.