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
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
13-29 April 2023
5-MINUTE BEDTIME STORIES
In the upcoming project at Fitzrovia Gallery in London «5-Minute Bedtime Stories», Maria Gvardeitseva explores the transformative potential of fairy tales to cope with the pain of divorce and separation. In the installation, you discover how stepping outside traditional norms and violating societal expectations can lead to new possibilities and refreshed perspective on life. And a variety of possible "happily ever afters."
Fitzrovia Gallery
139 Whitfield St, London