Evelīna Deičmane-Vida

Evelīna Deičmane-Vida is an internationally renowned multimedia artist, whose works are characterised by an existential approach. She creates a space where drama and humour, sorrow and joy can all coexist.

“Two Steps Forward” is a video and sound installation, which from the outside is reminiscent of a planet formed from clay, inside which a magic ritual dance is performed to the accompaniment of shamanic music motifs. The artist explains that the work is a fantasy-inspired microcosm closely connected with childhood memories: “When I was little, I thought the moon was a hole in the sky through which God gazes at us in our dark balloon. So I put a chicken inside the “planet” to observe what she did. She took two steps forward and one back, digging for worms. That is the point of view of a chicken dwelling inside a sort of planet.” This work was part of a joint exhibition by Evelīnas Deičmane-Vida and her husband, composer and saxophone player André Vida, titled “Together One“, which comprised an ironically meditative family diary interacting with visual art and experimental music.

Two Steps Forward. 2016.