When Hell Is Full, the Dead Will Walk the Earth
Līga Spunde
August 22 - October 6, 2019
@
Kim? Contemporary Art Center
Sporta iela 2, k-1, LV-1013, Riga
In her solo exhibition, Līga Spunde focuses on the ruthlessness hidden behind forms of everyday communication and information exchange on the internet. She analyses “hate culture” not just online, but in various forms where users exchange chillingly inhuman texts, images and videos that can sometimes also turn into real, horrifying acts.
ANONYMOUS. You first tried to chat sometime around the beginning of the 2000s when the internet also appeared in your home. It was exciting and terrifying at the same time. It was an opportunity to try out various identities, ages, genders and roles. Growing up happened fast and digitally. It was an absolute twilight zone, simultaneously a land of opportunity and new information. Here your short-sightedness was compensated by the blindness of everyone else who was there. You soon started to get to know the darker sides of human nature, learning about different perversions, hate, and obscenities in their broadest form.
ZOMBIE. You met me at a very strange time in my life.
fragment from text used in Līga Spunde’s exhibition
Līga Spunde often creates her work as multimedia installations in which personal stories are closely entwined with a consciously constructed fiction. In 2014 Spunde received the Ināra Tetereva art scholarship. She received her Master’s degree in Visual Communications from the Art Academy of Latvia with her diploma work Pārgājiens. This work was highlighted by the 2016 Startpoint Prize jury as one of the top three European art school degree projects. Spunde has participated in various exhibitions and art projects in Latvia and internationally: Melos (2019, Creative Art Space, Arsenāls, Riga), Champs- Élysées (2019, Gallery 427, Riga), Interlūdija in cooperation with Alvis Misjuns (elephant stables of the Riga Circus, KVADRIFONS, Riga), Screen Age I: Self-Portrait (2018, Riga Photography Biennial, RMT, Riga), NNN (2917, LNMM, Riga), Free French Fries (2017, Gallery Komplot, Belgium), Disappearance is a trick (2016, Fotopub Festival, Slovenia).
