In the frame of the Riga Photography Biennial (RPB) – NEXT 2023, an international group exhibition is on display at the Artists’ Union of Latvia Gallery. RPB – NEXT program is dedicated to highlighting the young artists and curators from the Baltic, Nordic and other European states. “The Language of Flowers”, featuring the works by young artists Agate Tūna (LV), Ieva Maslinskaitė (LT), Hedi Jaansoo (EE) and Daniel Vincent Hansen (NO), and curated by Inga Brūvere (LV) and Marie Sjøvold (NO) will be on until July 2 and available every day, including holidays. Biennial’s events will continue until July 23.
The exhibition “Language of Flowers” features reflections by four young artists, or four different quests after the true essence of things, with the artists withdrawing into themselves and carefully questioning the language of their creative medium of choice, i.e., photography.
The artists, representing Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Norway, not only share an introspective drive, characteristic of all young people, as well as a desire to understand their position in the global landscape at large, but are also similar in the way they pursue it. They address gnawing questions about their identity and place in the world with the method of a biologist poet. Their attitude suggests a desire to delve deep into things as well as a reverence for one’s surroundings, i.e., nature and culture and, on an individual and collective level, the history of their family and society.
Their point of view invites changing the inveterate notions, which have predominated across centuries, of a world order in which everything revolves around the desires and is subjected to the needs of the species homo sapiens. In lieu of a ruthlessly consumptive way of life they have opted to listen to and cooperate with their surroundings, and that’s why they’re learning to speak “the language of flowers”.
The exhibition text was written by Aiga Dzalbe (LV). The event is supported by State Culture Capital Foundation, Riga City Council, Artists’ Union of Latvia, Cultural Endowment of Estonia, Nordic Council of Minister’s Office in Latvia, Royal Norwegian Embassy in Riga, Estonian Embassy in Riga, Rixwell Hotels, Valmiermuiža Brewery, Printing house “Adverts”, Arterritory.com, Echo Gone Wrong, Noba.ac, and BLOK magazine. Find out more on www.rpbiennial.com
View from the RPB-NEXT 2023 exhibition Language of Flowers. Photo by Ingus Bajārs
View from the RBP-NEXT 2023 exhibition Language of Flowers. Photo by Ingus Bajārs
View from the RBP-NEXT 2023 exhibition Language of Flowers. Ieva Maslinskaitė (LT), from the series In a Pupa: Relearning photography from a non-human perspective, 2022. Photo by Ingus Bajārs
View from the RBP-NEXT 2023 exhibition Language of Flowers. Ieva Maslinskaitė (LT), from the series In a Pupa: Relearning photography from a non-human perspective, 2022. Photo by Ingus Bajārs
View from the exhibition Language of Flowers. Photo by Ingus Bajārs
View from the RBP-NEXT 2023 exhibition Language of Flowers. Ieva Maslinskaitė (LT), from the series In a Pupa: Relearning photography from a non-human perspective, 2022. Photo by Ingus Bajārs
View from the RBP-NEXT 2023 exhibition Language of Flowers. Ieva Maslinskaitė (LT), from the series In a Pupa: Relearning photography from a non-human perspective, 2022. Photo by Ingus Bajārs
View from the RBP-NEXT 2023 exhibition Language of Flowers. Ieva Maslinskaitė (LT), from the series In a Pupa: Relearning photography from a non-human perspective, 2022. Photo by Ingus Bajārs
View from the RBP-NEXT 2023 exhibition Language of Flowers. Ieva Maslinskaitė (LT), from the series In a Pupa: Relearning photography from a non-human perspective, 2022. Photo by Ingus Bajārs
View from the RBP-NEXT 2023 exhibition Language of Flowers. Agate Tūna (LV), from the series Pond House, 2021 –. Photo by Ingus Bajārs
View from the RBP-NEXT 2023 exhibition Language of Flowers. Agate Tūna (LV), from the series Pond House, 2021 –. Photo by Ingus Bajārs
View from the exhibition Language of Flowers. Photo by Ingus Bajārs
View from the RBP-NEXT 2023 exhibition Language of Flowers. Agate Tūna (LV), from the series Pond House, 2021 –. Photo by Ingus Bajārs
View from the RBP-NEXT 2023 exhibition Language of Flowers. Hedi Jaansoo (EE), from the series Sweet Peas and Snapdragons and Forget Me Not, 2021. Photo by Ingus Bajārs
View from the RBP-NEXT 2023 exhibition Language of Flowers. Hedi Jaansoo (EE), from the series Sweet Peas and Snapdragons and Forget Me Not, 2021. Photo by Ingus Bajārs
View from the RBP-NEXT 2023 exhibition Language of Flowers. Hedi Jaansoo (EE), from the series Sweet Peas and Snapdragons and Forget Me Not, 2021. Photo by Ingus Bajārs
View from the RBP-NEXT 2023 exhibition Language of Flowers. Hedi Jaansoo (EE), from the series Sweet Peas and Snapdragons and Forget Me Not, 2021. Photo by Ingus Bajārs
View from the RBP-NEXT 2023 exhibition Language of Flowers. Hedi Jaansoo (EE), from the series Sweet Peas and Snapdragons and Forget Me Not, 2021. Photo by Ingus Bajārs
View from the RBP-NEXT 2023 exhibition Language of Flowers. Daniel Vincent Hansen (NO), from the series Undergrowth, 2022. Photo by Ingus Bajārs
