Ancestral Body — ISSP Gallery

Anna Maskava: Senču ķermenis / Ancestral Body

Opening: 31.11. 2024

Exhibition dates: 31.11.2024 - 31.02.2025

Curators: Iveta Gabaliņa, Laine Kristberga

Exhibition scenography and spatial solutions: Aleksejs Beļeckis

Contributors to creating the exhibition: Kamilla Kūna, Ulrika Māliņa, Una Grants, Ella Ruicēna, Beatrise Anda Ozoliņa, Marta Madara Grantiņa

Thanks to: Aldis Bušs, Agnese Upenika, Aivars Purmalis and FineArtPrint

The exhibition is supported by the State Culture Capital Foundation, Riga City Council and SiF.

The hybrid, synthesized, and transdisciplinary art forms created by Anna Maskava blur the boundaries between nature and technology, two-dimensional images and processes, as well as the human and the non-human world. The artist plays and performatively intervenes in both nature and the material world, as well as in various media and technologies, revealing a multiplicity of nonlinear, interconnected narratives.

At the opening of the exhibition, visitors had the opportunity to experience the performance "Beyond Good and Evil" by Anna Maskava, Laine Kristberga and Irita Tīlane-Pakalniņa, which, as a visceral ritual of encounter, will prompt reflection on the interaction between nature and the material world.

Anna Maskava (1990) is a transdisciplinary artist working in the field of visual arts, primarily focusing on the means of expression in photography and performance art, especially their synthesis. In photography, Anna works within the self-portrait genre and purposefully creates her own system of imagery and visual codes that allow her to transpose individual experiences into symbols, allegories, and metaphors.