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Celojums/The Journey
This solo exhibition uses digital imagery, video and personal artefacts to explore ideas about cultural displacement and loss. It is based on the experience of attempting to follow my mother’s journey from Latvia to Australia at the end of WWII through a series of displaced persons’ camps in Poland, Germany and Italy. The digital prints in the show were developed from images and video I took during my 3 month journey and one of my mother’s old school photographs, taken in 1936. I was particularly drawn to the school photo because it both captures the sense of innocence and uncertainty that accompanies childhood and provides a strange premonition of the war that was soon to affect everyone in the photograph.
History
Medium
digital imagery and installationISBN
9789984850023Department/School
School of Creative Arts and MediaPublisher
National Library of LatviaExtent
13 artworks - digital images and installation; 11 weeksEvent Venue
Exhibition Rooms, National Library of Latvia, RigaDate of Event (Start Date)
2010-06-11Date of Event (End Date)
2010-08-31Rights statement
Copyright 2010 Brigita Ozolins and Andris VilksRepository Status
- Restricted