ANNA AIZSILNIECE. MUGWORT’S TURN

In “Mugwort's Turn" artist Anna Aizsilniece talks about concepts of freedom and order, and how people strive to seek, create and understand them. At the same time, Anna Aizsilniece develops contemporary eco-conceptualism, which highlights overlooked resources and their use. Art production and its ecosystemic criteria have been the focus of Anna Aizsilniece's attention since 2009 when she created the first clothing collection in the Recycled.lv project.
This time the mugwort - a plant in Latvian meadows - is placed in the center of the exhibition with its plastic, ecological and biological pigment resource. Equally important in the exhibition is the cultural and historical heritage of the mugwort in folk songs and traditional housekeeping. The exhibition offers an opportunity to meet Anna Aizsilniece's unique syncretism, which combines traditional myth and knowledge, conceptual ecology, handicrafts, and pop art charm. The exhibition will feature twelve paintings created by the artist in her original technique - with an extract of fermented mugworts and an admixture of acrylic pigment on wood fiber boards. Instead of brushes - brooms made out of mugworts. On the first floor of the Art Station Dubulti spectator will be able to stand among the mugworts and spin with the sun.