Līva Veigura – interdisciplinary art exhibition “Reality’s Side Effects”

From 6 July to 16 August 2024, the Ogre History and Art Museum presented the interdisciplinary exhibition Reality’s Side Effects by artist Līva Veigura.

Continuing her grandmother’s unrealised dream of pursuing a career in ceramics, the artist creates a parallel understanding of the world. In her work, she weaves together and re-examines questions that are significant to her, exploring themes of gender, self-perception and the role of lived experience in the artistic process.

The image – as a form of spirituality existing in one dimension – acquires spatial perception when it encounters materiality shaped by everyday rhythms. Colour, brushstroke, fibre, seam and form become concepts in their own right. Visual language speaks in place of words, telling everyday stories that are at times intimate and painful.

One of the Ogre History and Art Museum’s development programmes focuses on supporting the professional growth of young local artists by offering them the opportunity to exhibit in the museum’s Small Hall. The museum is pleased to support the initiative of the young Lielvārde-based artist Līva Veigura, valuing her courage in revealing the difficult life lines of herself and the women in her family, and her ability to translate these experiences into the language of visual art through various techniques, creating poetically layered thematic diversity.

An essential aspect of Līva Veigura’s artistic practice is her engagement with art history, which allows glimpses of creative influences and established artistic connections. In this narrative, influence itself becomes a kind of side effect of reality – one for which the artist seeks no remedy.

Līva Veigura (1990) is an artist whose work brings together photography and a central material value – ceramics. The interaction between these two mediums creates contemporary impressions in both, assembling multi-dimensional and multi-layered ‘side effects’ of reality. Her works construct their own sensory world, where art becomes a vital mechanism for survival – because without it, that world would feel empty.