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In Riga is located an unusual museum – RSU Anatomy Museum. The museum is based on the first teaching collection used in anatomy studies in Latvia, which was created in the 1920’s and the 1930’s. The museum is open to everyone – the public is invited to look at what is usually seen only by anatomists or surgeons. There you will get to experience the diversity of human bodies, of skeletons, embryos, bones, body parts and organs exhibited there, their structure and how they vary in diseased and healthy form. Everything there is real. It also happens to be my part time job there and exactly that decision to work there became the turning point in my creative career as well. I created a series of embroidered portraits which show the fragments of human faces that I met face to face as wet specimens in the museum’s collection.
Read more about the project “Piece-Ful” HERE
See the exhibition “Piece-Ful” HERE
Interview with me on the National Radio (in LV only) is HERE
Photos from the exhibition opening are HERE.
LV
Rīgā atrodas neparasts muzejs – RSU Anatomijas muzejs. Muzeja pamatā ir pirmā anatomijas mācību kolekcija Latvijā, kas izveidota anatomikumā 20. gadsimta 20.–30. gados. Muzejs ir atvērts visiem. Ikviens ir aicināts ieskatīties tajā, ko parasti redz tikai anatoms vai ķirurgs, un iepazīt cilvēku ķermeņu dažādību. Skeleti, embriji, kauli, ķermeņa daļas un orgāni – to uzbūve un variācijas slimībā un veselībā. Tur viss ir pa īstam. Šis muzejs ir mana otra darba vieta un tieši tas izrādījās pagrieziena punkts arī manā radošajā karjerā. Es radīju izšūtu portretu sēriju – tajos redzami cilvēku sejas fragmenti, kurus ievēroju Anatomijas muzeja kolekcijas slapjo preparātu traukos.