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Līga Spunde

Works / Exhibitions

︎A Panic Attack on a Sunny Day

︎ Work Work Work

︎ My Bitter Sweet Frankenstein Body

︎ Episodes About Not Knowing How It Will Be

︎ Force[d] Majeure

︎ The Bambi Project

︎ Cybervikings of Mars

︎ There’s No Harm In Any Blessings

︎ Kā skan, tā atskan

︎ When Hell Is Full the Dead Will Walk the Earth ︎
︎ A Conversation With Tom Mills
︎ Melos

︎ Interlude
︎ What's a Girl Like You Doing In a Place Like This
︎ How a Well-known Local Art Historian Called Me Fat When I Was Nine Years Old
︎ Free French Fries
︎ The Hike


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Force[d] Majeure


Digital drawing, window sticker

Group exhibition at the Hanzas Perons territory, Riga, Latvia
02/09 – 01/12/2021

Artists: 0.0.01.0.0, Santa France, Indriķis Ģelzis, Kiwie, Krišs Salmanis, Aleksandra Samuļenkova, Līga Spunde
Curated by Elīna Drāke (Kim?), Zane Onckule (Kim?) and independent curator Žanete Liekīte
Organised by Kim? Contemporary Art Centre in collaboration with Hanzas Perons and Novum Riga Charitable Foundation

Irresistible force or force majeure is a rare occurrence. These are extraordinary unavoidable circumstances that could not be and were impossible to foresee. Force[d] Majeure is a play on words, meaning irresistible force caused by compulsion. These are circumstances that were foreseeable but were not or are not being prevented. It is force used to further particular interests, intentions or ends. Compulsive force can express itself inside a family, a school, a workplace or on social networks, anywhere at all. During such occurrences, the ends are groundlessly used to justify the means, sacrificing empathy, justice and equal treatment.


“Irresistible force” or force majeure most often turns up when contrasting and conflicting forces collide. According to the common definition, “irresistible force” applies to events including natural catastrophes, government decrees and political protests. When such circumstances arise, former liabilities/relationships are challenged due to the greater force that has (re)asserted itself. As a metaphor, force majeure also means an all-destructive force, at once powerful and ruthless. Living with the powers that be all the while sharing their vulnerability, how could individuals and particular social groups react to or even challenge what’s seemingly inevitable? What happens when someone oversteps another’s boundaries or when the boundaries of someone else are overstepped?


Considering this, Force[d] Majeure is made with an intent to create a stimulating background to discussions that touch upon moments of collision between force/power and the public, the environment and the body. The exhibition space – a public environment where a freestanding wall partitioning off the territory has been erected – is arranged to symbolize a public space, the qualities of which, through different periods, contexts and regions, are opportune for embodying and conducting messages rooted in activism and free expression of thought. The works on show, including sculptures, prints, works using typeface technique, and graffiti, pose questions about the experience of the public and its groups in interaction with systems of governance, as well as contribute to the feasibility of a potential, standing up against fallacies, groundless defamation, destructive inaccuracies, currency fluctuations and the practice of “cancelling”.


The participants are artists with international experience, whose works are in the collection of the Latvian National Museum of Art, international institutions and private collections, as well as an internationally recognized type face specialist and graffiti artists.

 


Līga Spunde “Arrhythmia of the System“ digital drawing, window sticker /  Force[d] Majeure, exhibition view, Hanzas Perons, Riga, Latvia, 2021. Photo by Ansis Starks



Līga Spunde “Arrhythmia of the System“ digital drawing, window sticker /  Force[d] Majeure, exhibition view, Hanzas Perons, Riga, Latvia, 2021. Photo by Ansis Starks




Krišs Salmanis / Force[d] Majeure, exhibition view, Hanzas Perons, Riga, Latvia, 2021. Photo by Ansis Starks



Aleksandra Samuļenkova / Force[d] Majeure, exhibition view, Hanzas Perons, Riga, Latvia, 2021. Photo by Ansis Starks

0.0.01.0.0 / Force[d] Majeure, exhibition view, Hanzas Perons, Riga, Latvia, 2021. Photo by Ansis Starks
0.0.01.0.0. /  Force[d] Majeure, exhibition view, Hanzas Perons, Riga, Latvia, 2021. Photo by Ansis Starks
Kiwie / Force[d] Majeure, exhibition view, Hanzas Perons, Riga, Latvia, 2021. Photo by Ansis Starks
 Indriķis Ģelzis / Force[d] Majeure, exhibition view, Hanzas Perons, Riga, Latvia, 2021. Photo by Ansis Starks

Santa France /  Force[d] Majeure, exhibition view, Hanzas Perons, Riga, Latvia, 2021. Photo by Ansis Starks



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