Amanda Ziemele

Amanda Ziemele represents O Day and Night, but This Is Wondrous Strange... And Therefore as a Stranger Give It Welcome for the Latvian Pavilion at the 60th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia.

An underlying yet integral narrative of Amanda’s project for the Latvian Pavilion, from which its ideas and concepts germinate, is English schoolmaster and theologian, Edwin A. Abbott’s novella Flatland.

Following Abbott’s Shakespearian thread: O Day and Night, but This Is Wondrous Strange... And Therefore as a Stranger Give It Welcome, Ziemele unfolds the mysteries of three dimensions in a fluid transition from flatland to thoughtland by creating a microcosm of embrace and unconditional hospitality under threat, consisting of eight figures of heightened identity and monochromatic (sur)faces.

Commissioner: Daiga Rudzāte, Head of the Indie Culture Project Agency

Curator: Adam Budak, Director of Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover