Ivars Pommers ^{Emerging artist}

Artist is based in: Latvia

Ivars Pommers is a Latvian visual artist whose practice is centred on figurative painting. His work explores the imagery that shapes collective memory and public perception, drawing inspiration from visual material that functions as a vehicle for myth-making in public space. These include images created to communicate political, ideological, historical, or commercial narratives.

Pommers is particularly interested in the aesthetics of ideologically charged imagery and the ways in which such images reflect competing worldviews and systems of values. Through painting, he reinterprets and transforms these visual sources, investigating how they distort, reinforce, or challenge historical narratives while continuing to influence everyday life. By placing familiar imagery into new visual contexts, his works offer reflections on the social, cultural, and political realities of the contemporary world.