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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.
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.
Cloe Jancis (b. 1992) is an artist working with photography, video, drawing and installation. In 2018, she graduated from the Estonian Academy of Arts with a BA in photography, and is currently following an MA programme in the Faculty of Liberal Arts at the Estonian Academy of Arts. Jancis is fascinated by the social image and daily roles of women – and the related myths, expectations and feelings they evoke. In recent years, her work has focused on objects and rituals associated with performing femininity.
Ieva Baltaduonyte (b.1988 in Kaunas, Lithuania) is a lens based artist and graduate of thePhotography BA programme at the Dublin Institute of Technology. Informed by her own personal experience of displacement, her artistic practice engages with topics and issues relating to migratory culture. Central to her work are the psychological consequences of migration, such as displacement trauma, as well as the concepts home, identity and the in-between state. After spending seventeen years living in Dublin, Ireland, Ieva has recently returned to her native Lithuania, where she is currently based. Transnational migration is perhaps the most highly contested issue across Europe. For new migrants spatial and temporal displacement is potentially traumatic, resulting in shifting identities where home can no longer be understood as a fixed knowable entity. Ieva is preoccupied with revealing personal and collective narratives where trauma, identity and memory encourage a deeper engagement with cross-cultural dialogue. By using photography for both personal expression and to foster a critical dialogue with contemporary society, she invites the viewer to participate in societal debates, foregrounding human experiences, and exposing what is otherwise obscured or ignored. Her carefully constructed projects combine politics and aesthetics inviting a dialogical relationship with the viewer.
Peters Jurgis (b. 1991) is a new media artist currently based in Riga, Latvia. He holds both a BSc in Digital Media Technology and an MSc in Cyber Security from the University of Birmingham, and an MA in Audiovisual Arts from the Art Academy of Latvia. His work comprises visual explorations into the impact of various phenomena caused by advances in technology. As such, a main focus of his work is Artificial Intelligence (AI) – both as a medium and on a conceptual basis. New developments in AI have sparked a series of heated debates, ranging from whether we can entrust critical tasks to AI, to conversations on the role of the human creator in an age of AI-generated content. With a background in machine learning algorithms, Jurgis believes that the future will bring AI and human co-creation – where algorithms are used to enhance a human artist’s capabilities. In his own practice, Jurgis applies new technologies as tools for visual storytelling, and as a means to speculate on future scenarios.
Reinis Hofmanis (b. 1985) is a Riga-based artist and photographer. He studied photography at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Hannover, Germany, and obtained an MA from the Visual Communication Department of the Art Academy of Latvia. His works are characterised by a socio-anthropological point of view – which manifests in an interest in typifying different groups of society, their behavioural pattern, and tier effect on the surrounding environment. Hofmanis won the main prize at Archifoto in 2012 and 2013, and was awarded 2nd place in the Architecture category of the Sony World Photography Awards. His works have been featured in publications such as The New York Times, Financial Times, Der Spiegel, Esquire, Bloomberg, Le Monde, The Globe and Mail, and The British Journal of Photography
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.
