The exhibition is based on footage that Vika Eksta took 11 years ago, armed with a 35 mm camera, at the funeral of her aunt Zoņa. The subject is ritual. How people of a particular culture say goodbye to someone who has passed away in order to order the world in which those who are left will continue to live.
The exhibition will be held in collaboration with the Riga Photography Biennial.
Vika Eksta is a Latvian artist who uses photography, moving image, performance and audiovisual archives in her work, combining documentary and fictional narratives. She studied photography with Andrejs Grant and at the EFTI School of Photography in Madrid, and holds a Master's degree in Visual Communication from the Art Academy of Latvia. Vika is a winner of ADC Young Guns, FK Portfolio and Riga Photography Biennial Award for Young Baltic Photographers, nominated for the Purvītis Award. Since 2014 she has been exhibiting in Latvia and abroad. Vika's works are included in the collections of the Latvian National Museum of Art, Latvian Museum of Photography and private collections in Europe and the USA.
Curated by Astrīda Riņķe.
About the gallery
ALMA was founded in 2005 by artist Astrida Riņķe and art historian Ilva Krišane. ALMA is located in an elegantly transformed Soviet modernist building at Tērbatas iela 64, Riga. The audience can be reached 24/7 thanks to the glass walls facing the street. Gallery's mission is to illuminate the region’s historical and cultural deposit plus individual artistic personality. To focus on carefully selected artists and to encourage artistic production. The gallery‘s capital is the sea, pine trees and neon lights. Anyone who has stood on the shores of the Baltic Sea and watched the horizon has experienced the uniqueness of this place that cannot be mistaken for any other.
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