woman day

Life. Imaginary project presentation.
Inkjet print-outs.
Photo: Marika Vītiņa, Uģis Vītiņš, Iveta Laure.

More and more romantic stories appear on the TV channels in which the main heroes live extremely passionate lives. Endless settling of the mutual relationships, sudden revelations of old family secrets and sharp turn-offs of the destiny seem common and ordinary.

It seems that the heroes of these soap-operas has nothing to do with the real life – as if they lived in an ideal world where no one has to do laundry or bother about what to have for lunch.

But is it really so that these soap-operas have nothing to do with our lives and vice-versa? After a bit of thinking one would admit that serial-like wilde emotions and passions frequently take place in every person‘s life.

„Life“ is a serial that offers an unexpected point of view on our day-to-day lives. Events in a real family are reflected serial-style thus creating a funny feeling, at the same time leaving a bitter aftertaste and thoughts about eternal human longings for passionate and emotional lives.

Housewive’s screensaver. 2008.
Slide show, digital prints.
Photo: Marika Vītiņa
Jew’s harp: Maša

I slip my cool hands into the welcoming warmth of the water and enjoy the light and vanishing foam mandalas that dance above the water, gleaming one moment and disappearing the next. Diving into their soft transparency I carelessly watch the sponge sliding over the dirty dish, inevitably sweeping away both – the beautiful and the ugly. My mind is again shiny and clean.

Tomorrow’s Therapy

Series of photos

Old age for a woman is the biggest fear in our society. Usually you don’t reveal it in public and it is supposedly unpolite to ask about it. Lots of effort and money is used to fight with unavoidable approaching of age. Usually it is fighten against not with healthy way of living and approach to life but artificial methods, such as operations, procedures and means.

In my project „Tomorrow’s therapy“ I offer an alternative solution – you are welcome to see your portrait in an imaginative photography taken by me after 20-30 years.

Possibly, you will change your opionion about you current looks and get free of your inferiority complex, your imagined shortages and your inadequacy to some chosen ideal.

Concept

The project explores the contradictory status of women in contemporary society. Today it is especially severe and demanding towards them.
Women have to be well-educated and able to fulfill themselves through paid work, as well as to be socially active.
Women still have to complete their traditional mission – to be mothers, to take care of their families, to manage daily chores and maintain family traditions. Society demands that women look and behave a certain way, sometimes making them feel as if they were just subjects. How to react to this pressure? How do women themselves see, create and imagine their place in today’s society?

The authors of the exhibiton Women’s Day try to find answers to these and other questions. Using wide range of visual art media they study lives of familiar women, involving their friends, neighbours, collegues and any inspiring person in the context of the theme.

woman day

Views from exhibition

Iveta Laure

Rasa Jansone

Marika Vītiņa

Ieva Dzintare

Authors

Concept

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