Project “Multiple lives ”
Within the 7th Riga International Textile and Fibre Art Triennial QUO VADIS? 2023
I write the stories of my world with lines, threads, colors and collages from personal and friends’ clothes. My story about the little Baltic woman. They know from their own experience or from their mother’s stories what it is to be interrogated by the KGB, what it means to mend kapron tights in “totalitarian times”. She is passionate because that is her essence, that is who she is. She can peel potatoes and dream of love at the same time.
The question is – what is the world like now? Everything is changing. A huge amount of unnecessary things, which we do not use, has been produced….Traditions are falling apart, the war in Ukraine – once again shows and highlights the role of women in the world when aggression reigns.
Each girl then becomes a carrier of her nation’s genetic code for the future. Every woman is love.
“Legs1”, “Legs2. birth“
wood, fixtures, used clothing and shoes
dried seaweed, glass, embroidery, linocut.
170x70x58
2021
Textile objects “Legs” portray various feelings from my life over many years. Romanticism, the desire to collect a lot of beautiful dresses to be desirable, the desire to give birth to a child, the desire to build armor against what is happening in the world. All my life I was reaching towards my ideal world of a woman, which I do not find in reality.
Astrid – my friend, an artist in her dame years, gave me a mountain of clothes, because there was no room for them in the new apartment. Here you could write a novel about a woman’s dreams and unlived lives: velvet – for concert visits, silk, chiffon – for dates, safari style – for trips that didn’t happen… I inherited a mountain of unrealized dreams, which resonated very much with my own life.
All the materials used in the creation of the “Legs” objects – the clothes were not cut or demolished, but only sewn, modeling the shapes with seaweed. I will be able to use these textiles myself or my daughter again when I disassemble the objects.
“Tablecloth1”, “Tablecloth2 – We don’t know what the evening will bring ”
Textile (1970s tablecloth), embroideries, acrylic markers, textile markers, used toy.
60×67
2022
I embroidered the tablecloth as a schoolgirl in the seventies and 50 years later I created an art object from this tablecloth by supplementing it with drawings and embroideries.
The work depicts my emotions and feelings over the course of many years, from childhood romanticism to the perspective of an almost sixty-year-old woman. All my life I was moving towards my ideal world of a woman, which I do not find in reality.