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Beyond Our Bodies Our Beings Extend
This website is an archive of written responses to the exhibition Beyond Our Bodies Our Beings Extend, on view at the Experimental Art Space of Art Academy of Latvia ‘Pilot’ from 2 November 2024 to 12 January 2025.
The exhibition features nine artists whose moving image works explore the relationships between the body, the land, and the living world. The visual narratives created by the artists invite us to reconsider the body as a fluid extension of the environment—a site of constant interaction between organism and ecosystem.
Recognising the importance of gathering voices from a wide range of fields beyond visual arts, experts across fields such as environmental law, molecular biology, neuroscience, regenerative agriculture, architecture, and more have been invited to respond to the works, encouraging viewers to see the body not as a boundary, but as a bridge connecting us to the Earth.
The exhibition is organised as part of the "ACADEMIA" award, which Sabīne Šnē received in 2022. The award was jointly established a year earlier by the Art Academy of Latvia, Helen Scott Lidgett Studio, and ACME to promote the development of young artists' professional careers. The recipient of the award is provided with a year-long residency in London, followed by access to a studio space in Riga a year later, along with the opportunity to hold an exhibition at the "Pilot" gallery. To reflect the global significance of the theme, Šnē invited like-minded collaborators she met both in Riga and London to participate in the exhibition and together reveal different and diverse facets of the human-Earth-technology trinity.
Work by: Sofia Lùndari (Italy), MARIA (US), Natasha Viosna Moody (UK), Hannah Morgan (UK), Djuna O’Neill (Ireland), Louis Rizzo Naudi (UK), Sabīne Šnē (Latvia), Agate Tūna (Latvia), and Ella Yolande (UK)
Written responses by: Martha Aroha, Sophie Carter, Ada Enesco, Emma Foliot, Nina Gonzalez-Park, Pasha Jeremenko & Yasmin L Jones, EF, Toms Majors, Elida Silvey
Curator of the exhibition and online platform: Nastia Svarevska (UK).
Supporters: Art Academy of Latvia, Embassy of Ireland in Latvia.
This platform was developed by Nastia Svarevska. Special thanks to Tom Denoon, Erin McIntosh, Antonia Gangi and Misha Svarevsky.