In her solo exhibition, Līga Spunde focuses on the ruthlessness hidden behind forms of everyday communication and information exchange on the internet. She analyses “hate culture” not just online, but in various forms where users exchange chillingly inhuman texts, images and videos that can sometimes also turn into real, horrifying acts.
Līga Spunde often creates her work as multimedia installations in which personal stories are closely entwined with a consciously constructed fiction. In 2014 Spunde received the Ināra Tetereva art scholarship. She received her Master’s degree in Visual Communications from the Art Academy of Latvia with her diploma work Pārgājiens. This work was highlighted by the 2016 Startpoint Prize jury as one of the top three European art school degree projects. Spunde has participated in various exhibitions and art projects in Latvia and internationally: Melos (2019, Creative Art Space, Arsenāls, Riga), Champs- Élysées (2019, Gallery 427, Riga), Interlūdija in cooperation with Alvis Misjuns (elephant stables of the Riga Circus, KVADRIFONS, Riga), Screen Age I: Self-Portrait (2018, Riga Photography Biennial, RMT, Riga), NNN (2917, LNMM, Riga), Free French Fries (2017, Gallery Komplot, Belgium), Disappearance is a trick (2016, Fotopub Festival, Slovenia).
When Hell Is Full, the Dead Will Walk the Earth
Līga Spunde
2019 08 22 – 2019 10 06
kim? Contemporary Art Centre
Photography: Ansis Starks
