Urban Legends / 2018, Solo Exhibition, Skola6 Art Space, Cesis, Latvia
"Urban Legends" is a series of paintings made of daily materials (papers, aluminum foil, spray paint and pens). Using these simple materials, the paintings in the series imitate the appearance of a wall carpet, as a prestigious or a mystical object, carrying familiar icons from different cultures and religions.
The “carpets” are hanged on the wall and function as objects and paintings at the same time.
Carpet weaving is one of the most ancient crafts known to mankind. Alongside its obvious functional role, this craft has entailed from its beginning, various cultural and social meanings. At their finest, carpets serve mean to express wealth and taste, yet along history, they were also a mean of spreading theological ideas, documenting historical events, expressing ideologies and even encrypting messages to distant allies.
An urban legend is a form of modern folklore. It usually consists of fictional stories, often presented as true, with macabre or humorous elements, rooted in local popular culture.These legends can be used for entertainment purposes, as well as semi-serious explanations for random events such as disappearances and strange objects.
The painting/"carpets" carry invented myths in a non-place and time.
the works combine and connect different traditional images that already bear many connotations, and try to dismantle them, creating a new symbolism with its own internal reasoning and alternative mystical meanings.
The “carpets” are hanged on the wall and function as objects and paintings at the same time.
Carpet weaving is one of the most ancient crafts known to mankind. Alongside its obvious functional role, this craft has entailed from its beginning, various cultural and social meanings. At their finest, carpets serve mean to express wealth and taste, yet along history, they were also a mean of spreading theological ideas, documenting historical events, expressing ideologies and even encrypting messages to distant allies.
An urban legend is a form of modern folklore. It usually consists of fictional stories, often presented as true, with macabre or humorous elements, rooted in local popular culture.These legends can be used for entertainment purposes, as well as semi-serious explanations for random events such as disappearances and strange objects.
The painting/"carpets" carry invented myths in a non-place and time.
the works combine and connect different traditional images that already bear many connotations, and try to dismantle them, creating a new symbolism with its own internal reasoning and alternative mystical meanings.