Digital drawing “Bulletproof Glass Protecting Serenity”

Digital drawing, 10 + 2 AP

27 × 27 cm

2020

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Līga Spunde is focusing on ambiguous human attitudes towards living beings and their complicated relationships with nature. The harmonious and carefree utopian landscape takes its inspiration from the idealized world usually seen in Walt Disney animations. The drawing served as a sketch for her installation ”Bulletproof Glass Protecting Serenity” that was made in laser engraving in wood covered with bulletproof glass.

Līga Spunde (1990) presents her works as multimedia installations, intertwining personal stories with fiction. References to different times and symbols are incorporated, building a vast yet subtle web. In 2016, she completed her postgraduate studies in the Department of Visual Communication at the Latvian Academy of Arts; her graduation project, The Hike, was named one of the three best projects by graduates of European art academies.

About the artist

Līga Spunde (b. 1990) is a visual artist based in Riga, Latvia. She presents her works as multimedia installations, intertwining personal stories with deliberate fiction. The interpretations and use of recognisable characters serve as an extension of her personal experiences, tapping into universal truths. The work’s content determines the conception’s physical form leading the artist to use various media and materials in her installations.

She completed her postgraduate studies in the Department of Visual Communication at the Art Academy of Latvia in 2016, her graduation project, The Hike, was named one of the three best projects by graduates of European art academies.

Spunde has participated in various exhibitions and art projects in Latvia and internationally. The most recent have been The Real Show (2022, CAC Brétigny, Paris), My Bitter Sweet Frankenstein Body (2022, Titanik, Turku), Screen Age III: Still Life (2022, Riga Photography Biennial, RMT, Riga), Cybervikings of Mars (2021, 427 Gallery, Riga), The Bambi Project (2021, Kogo Gallery, Tartu), Being Safe Is Scary, Survival Kit 11 (2020, Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art, Riga), When Hell Is Full, the Dead Will Walk the Earth (2019, Kim? Contemporary art centre, Riga), Melos (2019, Creative Art Space, Arsenāls, Latvian National Museum of Art, Riga).

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