MARTA VEINBERGA

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   Shared Blanket, 2016, prize stickers, adhesive film, tape on plywood, 152.5 x 152.5 cm

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     Shared Blanket, 2016, prize stickers, adhesive film, tape on plywood, 152.5 x 152.5 cm

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   SHARED BLANKET
   (ES ZINU, KA KĀDREIZ MAN DĀRZIŅŠ BŪS... )
   prize stickers, adhesive film, tape on plywood
   152.5 x 152.5 cm
   2016
   

   This work is about a mismatch between human dreams and actual experiences.

   The piece’s title in Latvian (literally translated as “I know that one day I will have a little garden”) equals a title of a sticky schlager song which was a hit for the generation born in a mid-war period in Latvia. Many of those people (like the author’s grandmother) were born and grew up in countryside – a life now referred to as idyllic – but later moved to the cities and very often ended up living in the least attractive Soviet panel houses. Finally, all that is left from the little dream garden is a vine, shared with hundreds of other residents.

   To grow any kind of garden around one’s house can also be seen in a wider context of decoration and personalization: however great or faulty be the architecture, different plants, figurines, Christmas lights, little paintings or even doilies will inevitably accompany it – and the prize stickers come in here pointing at the human inclination to collect things.

   
   
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   Shared Blanket (detail).

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     Shared Blanket (detail).

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     Shared Blanket (detail).

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     Shared Blanket (detail).

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