Sign

• Time – September 2024
• Location – Raiņa kvartāls, Cēsis, Latvia
• Participants – 2nd year painting students from Art Academy of Latvia
• My role – project manager/curator, artist

We follow ancient instructions that have become ingrained in our daily lives as self-evident. Instructions are signs – they include letters, numbers, punctuation marks, road signs, birthmarks and notes. These signs adapt to each reality, creating new ones and complementing existing ones. Humans use them as navigation tools to find their way, build relationships, and understand their belonging. Signs are an inheritance whose authors have been lost to history, yet we still follow them without questioning who defined them and why. As we grow and explore, new topics emerge that demand means of interpretation. Everyday life requires new signs.