On May 3, 2025, CUT ART will host the opening of a new exhibition “CUT ART AWARD Exhibition – The Garden of Fractured Paths” featuring the works of three emerging Latvian artists Egor Buimister, Anastasia Shneps-Shneppe and Vincent Jernev.
CUT ART AWARD is an annual initiative aimed at supporting early-career artists. The 2025 winners are Egor Buimister, Anastasia Shneps-Shneppe and Vincent Jernev, whose projects are presented in the exhibition “The Garden of Fractured Paths”.
The title of the exhibition refers to Jorge Louis Borges’ story “Garden of Forking Paths”, and suggests a view of the artwork not as a completed act, but as a living, constantly evolving process, subject to change and influence. It is a space of uncertainty and potential, where temporal and personal boundaries are always in flux.
Egor Buimister’s “Scenes from the Ode to the Confederate Dead – An Intermediary Report” is a pictorial reflection on the fragility of memory and the reticence of history. The works, executed in watercolour on canvas, are inspired by Allan Tate’s poem “Ode to the Confederate Dead” and explore the border state between historical knowledge and the unknown.
Anastasia Shneps-Shneppe’s “Angelica” project reinterprets the image of the sacred garden from a feminist perspective as a metaphor for the impossible ideal of motherhood. Through fragile glass sculptures and photographs, the artist explores maternal subjectivity as a fluid state, where care, strength, vulnerability, and ambivalence intertwine. The work references the philosophy of Julia Kristeva, proposing a new visual ethics of the maternal experience.
Vincent Jernev project “0024” explores the creative process itself, starting with the installation “GroundLoop”, a practice of everyday drawings that develop into large paintings. His approach is inspired by his metaphysical and futuristic heritage, but rather than striving for radical rupture, the artist shows the quiet forces of transformation and the value of routine pursuits. The final works, including the EarthBox series, capture the complex evolution of an idea, revealing to the viewer the inner logic of the author’s statement.
“The Garden of Fractured Paths” is not just an exhibition, but a space in which ideas take root, intertwine and transform. It is a garden in which the viewer becomes an accomplice – not an observer, but a participant in a living artistic process. Come and walk these diverging paths where the past meets the future and art is reborn before your eyes.
The exhibition will open on May 3, 2025, in the CUT ART space located in the HOFT project at Strēlnieku iela 5, Riga, LV-1010.
CUT ART is open by appointment. You can book a visit through the CUT ART website or by writing to our social networks.
On the opening day, the gallery will be open from 15:00 to 18:00. “The Garden of Fractured Paths” exhibition will run until May 21, 2025.