Talaðu við mig! / Runā ar mani! / Talk To Me! Akureyri, Iceland
Exhibition of Latvian contemporary art “Talaðu við mig! / Runā ar mani! / Talk To Me!” at the Akureyri Art Museum, Akureyri, Iceland, June 1 - September 22, 2019. Works by Zenta Dzividzinska from the collection of Latvian Contemporary Art Museum are included - contact print notebooks from the mid-1960s.
According to the museum’s press release, “The idea of the curators Æsa Sigurjónsdóttir and Astrīda Rogule was to create a visually and contextually diverse platform for the conversation between Latvian artists and the exhibition’s visitors in Iceland. This task corresponds to the aims of the centenary of the Republic of Latvia – to tell the Latvian story and build the Latvia of the future. The title of the project is taken from Rasa Šmite, Raitis Šmits and Mārtiņš Ratniks’ multimedia installation Talk To Me, which was chosen as the key of the story of the exposition of Latvian contemporary art. The thematic arcs bringing together the stories created by the artists encompass Latvia’s current political realities, historical reminiscences, daily life and poetics of the Latvian countryside, they reveal life stories, personal manifestations and endeavours, turn to the revelation of the existence of life and its values. The selected works represent a plurality of visual art’s media – the show includes painting, graphic art, sculpture, photography, video, multimedia installations, net art.”
Read more about the exhibition:
press release on the Latvian National Art Museum website,
info about the exhibition on the Akureyri Art Museum website (in Icelandic),
info about the exhibition on the Akureyri Art Museum website (in English),
photo reportage from the exhibition in Arterritory online magazine.
Photo by Astrīda Rogule, published on Arterritory, https://arterritory.com/lv/vizuala_maksla/on_site/24147-fotoreportaza_runa_ar_mani/
