Textile Art Exhibition "Sūnas"

From May 13th to September 2023, the textile art collective "Maģi" in collaboration with the Andrejs Upītis Memorial Museum in Riga, at 38-4 Brīvības Street, invites you to visit the textile miniature exhibition "Sūnas".

"Sūnas often preserve views, halting individual development, but at the same time making those views peculiarly beautiful, as they are. Sometimes beneath the sūnas lie socially and politically significant questions, the time for which may not have come yet. But perhaps it has and maybe now is the time to uncover the layer of sūnas? It sometimes requires great courage to look beneath the surface and bring uncomfortable questions into the sunlight. Sometimes, on the contrary, it takes courage to acknowledge that the "uncomfortable question" is the only true and rightful existence beneath the delicate layer of sūnas, which is more valuable than the pursuit of questions that have lost their relevance," says the group of artists "Maģi" about the concept of the exhibition.

"Latvian and Estonian textile artists offer their artistic vision of sūnas in the exhibition. These are interpretations of sūnas in a phraseological, ecological, biological, anthropological, and psycholinguistic context. The artists' works, interacting with each other, create a new artistic whole, which allows visitors to the exhibition to become researchers of the newly created sūnas, capturing the visual reflections and manifestos created by textile artists," explains artist Rūta Briede.

The exhibition will open within the framework of the Museum Night on May 13, 2023, at 19:00. Visitors will be delighted by a performance by the Emīls Dārziņš Music Middle School's woodwind quartet, as well as the opportunity for exhibition visitors to create sūna patterns using embroidery techniques.

Participating artists:

Ilze Rudzīte, Mārīte Leimane, Kate Putniņa, Maija Purgaile, Erika Zutere, Dace Grīnberga, Kristīne Andersone, Kristīne Kligina, Līva Kaprāle, Annele Slišāne, Jana Purmale, Ieva Krūmiņa, Laura Pika, Antra Saliņa, Ingrīda Sūna, Pēteris Sidars, Kertu Sillaste, Rūta Briede, Evija Stukle-Zuitiņa, Ilona Valaine-Blekte, Diāna Kokoreviča, Dace Vecozola, Elīna Ģībiete.