How can the concept of memorial be extended to create materialised statements that refer to the past while pointing to the future?
The female figure in Riga in Victory Park was not realised as intended. An essential part of the idea was the figure of a flying child in the fold of the drapery. For ideological reasons, the Central Committee of the Party and its leader Augusts Voss had the child figure removed at the last minute.
The female figure in Riga in Victory Park was not realised as intended. An essential part of the idea was the figure of a flying child in the fold of the drapery. For ideological reasons, the Central Committee of the Party and its leader Augusts Voss had the child figure removed at the last minute.
Now its place remains empty. This historical fact was the basis for the work ‘A Memorial to the Void.
A work about the deprived future and about contemporary conditions in the mirror of history.
A work about the deprived future and about contemporary conditions in the mirror of history.
