Watery Day's Eye
Latvian National Museum of Art•Apr 12, 2025 — Jun 06, 2025
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Currently on view at the Latvian National Museum of Art as part of the Purvītis Prize 2025 finalists’ exhibition, Watery Day’s Eye has taken on a slightly new form, adapting itself to the architecture and atmosphere of the museum space.
Indriķis Ģelzis turns his attention to the ‘liqui-modern’ individual engulfed by a sea of turbulent change. Mediated through our society living under the precondition of shattering flux that permeates the politics of relationships, identities and economics, Watery Day’s Eye is an ode to the personalized, analog cyberspace masquerading itself under the foil of visual resemblances and contextual meaning of the public swimming pool.
A folkloric, nature-inspired color palette casts the customary white walls of institutional normality with brightness. Flashes of experience and memory act as binders for sculptural appropriations of the infographic ecosystem in metal. Urban planning and the ebb and flow of the stock market are represented in...More
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Watery Day's Eye
Latvian National Museum of Art•Apr 12, 2025 — Jun 06, 2025
Press Release
Currently on view at the Latvian National Museum of Art as part of the Purvītis Prize 2025 finalists’ exhibition, Watery Day’s Eye has taken on a slightly new form, adapting itself to the architecture and atmosphere of the museum space.
Indriķis Ģelzis turns his attention to the ‘liqui-modern’ individual engulfed by a sea of turbulent change. Mediated through our society living under the precondition of shattering flux that permeates the politics of relationships, identities and economics, Watery Day’s Eye is an ode to the personalized, analog cyberspace masquerading itself under the foil of visual resemblances and contextual meaning of the public swimming pool.
A folkloric, nature-inspired color palette casts the customary white walls of institutional normality with brightness. Flashes of experience and memory act as binders for sculptural appropriations of the infographic ecosystem in metal. Urban planning and the ebb and flow of the stock market are represented in...More
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