Photo reportage from the exhibition 'Beware of dogs gifts, presents' at 427

April 10, 2025
Author Echo Gone Wrong

Published in Photo / Video from Latvia

Installation view

Beware of dogs gifts, presents

The gift is given by the gift giver
get Gift give gifted got
ai dundur-dundur-dun-dun-dot-dot-dot
now, higher
i want
i want to give
i want to give you something
i have a full bottle of snails
i have an ache belly full t
o Estev you should give
i want to give you

Show of love
from door to door
no philosophy of joy in giving
there is no giving
there is no gifting
only gestures
gesture of giving gestures
for today I am dressed in gestures
today I am wearing my blue cap
and (time)
I gave you my blue cap
when there is so much sun
disguised as the next spring’s gift
a mask gift
art disguised gifts
never open a gift from my…
face to your face;
wait
let me give you a signal
spits badly on the ground
(beware of dogs who bring gifts)
i want to give you a wall
wall painting walls
work, hard, work
i want you to paint it black darkness
what’s going on
i remember, i gave you a branch
the main one, you know, it flourishes
the swollen branch
the fruit of labour
i want silence
are you for the sun or the darkness
silence
and the wings smile
i want noise
for the fruit gives
the root receives
and i will bite them both

text by Afonso Theias

Beware of dogs gifts, presents
Artists: Kristers Krūms, Horhe Solorzano, Sofija Frančeska Putniņa and Sims Birznieks
427, Riga, Latvia
22/03 – 17/05/2025

Photography: Līva Priedīte