Long Pickled Cucumbers

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“Long Pickled Cucumbers is a two-channel, HD video projection of Katrina Neiburga. It premiered this year at the International Biennale for Contemporary Art “RIBOCA” in Riga.

A woman (the artist), a man and a child move in the seclusion of a wilderness, in a marshland with swaying ground. In this nature, the rituals of modern contemporaries give the appearance of absurd attempts to survive in the wasteland. A mood emerges that makes appear the events between prehistoric times and the post-apocalypse. The electronic sounds of Richie Hawtin aka Plastikman accompany the video like a background noise of modern life.

Katrina Neiburga graduated from the Latvian Academy of Fine Arts and got a master’s degree at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm. She participated in the biennials in Sydney and Moscow. In 2009 she was awarded the Purvitis Prize, the most prestigious art prize in Latvia, for her video “Solitude”. In 2015 she represented Latvia at the Venice Biennale. She has created numerous scenographies for ballet and theatre, including the National Opera of Latvia and the Théâtre de la Bastille in Paris.

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