The juxtaposition of Mooste manor and an English-style park with ruins of a former Soviet collective farm creates a vividly contrasted pastoral. Reminiscent of an interspace, the environment, with its wealth of cultural layers, helps establish an ironic background while allowing the artist to loosen up and abandon herself to internal transformation. Ingrīda describes Mooste as a place that doesn’t really exist. It’s the artist’s personal ‘India’ where she can find her real self.
Her project sees this nowhere land symbolically transferred to Riga, where the pictures, mounted in frames of various styles and periods, merge with the eclectic style and democratic ambience of Bolderāja Bar. Although Postcards from Mooste is a record of personal experience, it also questions the accepted norms of body representation born as a result of social pressure. Creating images and text Ingrīda Pičukāne was assisted by Sanita Muižniece, editor of the Latvian comics magazine “kuš!”.
Participant: Ingrīda Pičukāne (LV)
Curator: Šelda Puķīte (LV)
Organizer: Riga Photography Biennial in cooperation with bar, book shop ‘Bolderāja’
Image: Ingrīda Pičukāne. From series ‘Postcards from Mooste’, 2018
At:
Bar, book shop ‘Bolderāja’, Avotu Str. 29, Riga. Free entrance
Gallery name: RIGA PHOTOGRAPHY BIENNIAL
Open: 11.09.2020 - 04.10.2020
