installations
PRICE-LESS
installationsMaria Gvardeitseva explores official and individual memories of wars and traumatic events. She offers visitors to join a so-called memorial table as a space of transforming grief and sorrow, and a dialog with the past. What new taboos and what new minefields of memory will emerge?
MIGRANT’S ALTAR. FAREWELL
installationsIs Maria Gvardeitseva’s heartbreaking journey to her true self, an intense sorrow delimiting her past from her future and a showcase of the price of freedom.
SPECIAL PROJECT FOR UNICEF
installationsThrough her special project for UNICEF in Belarus Maria creates a metaphorical try-walking-in my shoes metaphor in order to display the stories of the most vulnerable of us - children
IMAGINARY CARGO-200 JOURNEY
installationsOn February 24, 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine. The inhuman violence of what the Russian Federation calls "the special military operation" as well as the courage of the Ukrainians shocked humanity.
KNITTING ISOLATION OUT
Fine artA story of the artist's quarantine isolation and expands to some fundamental issues such as imposed gender roles and finding one's authentic self in the context of everchanging world around us.
EVENTS
29 November 2023
BETWEEN DOG AND WOLF — WHAT REMAINS TO BE SEEN?
Maria Gvardeitseva's performance will explore the social taboos imposed on memory and the so-called minefields of memory that we are re-experiencing due to the new and ongoing wars around us. Performance participants will join the so-called memory table as a space of transformative grief, a dialog with the past and the present. How to distinguish between dogs and wolves? Friends and enemies? Phantasm from ideology? What remains to be seen?
Feelium Gallery & Studios
7 Kensington Mall, London W8 4EB, UK
9 May 2023
NE-NOVĒRTĒJAMS / PRICE-LESS
The performance will take place in a cell-like space and draws on elements of collective memory to create an engaging experience for the audience. Maria Gvardeitseva explores official and individual memories of wars and traumatic events. She offers visitors to join a so-called memorial table as a space of transforming grief and sorrow, and a dialog with the past. What new taboos and what new minefields of memory will emerge?
M/Darbnīca
Aristida Briāna 9, Rīga