Artist
Zane Priede
Zane Priede (b.1990) a self-taught still life photographer based in Riga, Latvia, has a background in design and a passion for photography. A graduate of Design Academy Eindhoven in the Netherlands, Priede’s work creates imaginary and surreal scenes with everyday objects, infusing them with fantasy. Her deep fascination for architecture and design can be seen in her visual approach, which involves constructing scenes with small-scale objects. Her interest in science, biology, and psychology are also evident in her visual explorations, contributing a playful approach to storytelling, and discovering the fantastical in the mundane.
CONTINUOUS GARDENS
The CONTINUOUS GARDENS project is a still life series that explores the potential of a fictional future for plant life, raising questions about how human intervention may impact their evolution. With a sense of nostalgia for extinct species, I delve into the idea of a lost world of plants in the past, imagining a world where – post-environmental crisis – flora and fauna adapt and evolve in unique ways through the remnants of human impact. The project strives to explore different possibilities of these evolutions, considering ‘what-if’ scenarios and creating an imaginary portal into the future. My ultimate goal is to initiate a conversation about the potential future of plant life and the impact of human activity on the natural world.
Cloe Jancis is Tallin-based artist who works primarily with photography, video and installation. Using her own body within staged photographs, Jancis reenacts a range of daily roles of women, highlighting their physical and mental manifestations. With an often playful approach, she questions the line between the autobiographical and fictional.
Informed by her own personal experience of displacement and migration upon returning to Lithuania after 17 years living abroad, Ieva Baltaduonyte's work engages with issues relating to migratory culture and its potential traumas. By using photography for both personal expression and to foster a critical dialogue with contemporary society, Ieva is preoccupied with encouraging a deeper engagement with cross-cultural dialogue.
Most often recognised as a masterful portrait photographer, Reinis Hofmanis’s series Room No. 13 reveals a portrait of humanity through images of empty public building interiors instead. In his images, the utility infrastructure has become a unique metaphor for the relationship between humans and their surroundings, revealing something of our desire to adapt, improve and, ultimately, give meaning to space.
Zane Priede examines the relationship between humans and nature through masterfully crafted still life photography. By utilising everyday objects, she creates imaginary and surreal images which reveal her deep fascination with architecture, design and biology. Her recent work Continuous Gardens explores a fictional potential future for plant life, and raises questions about how human intervention may impact its evolution.
Jurģis Peters is interested in visual explorations of the impact and consequences of various phenomena caused by advances in technology, with a particular focus on Artificial Intelligence (AI) both as a medium and a conceptual basis. Believing that the future is of AI and human co-creation, Peters uses these new technological possibilities as tools for visual storytelling and speculation regarding future scenarios.