Ģirts Korps

Ģirts Korps is a multimedia artist whose works are based on an industrial aesthetic, employing digital video ad three-dimensional animation. The artist creates his audio-visual works in collaboration with programmers and experimental music makers. The visual and audial structure of the work produces an anxious, dreamy state akin to a person being half awake. 

 In “Landscape” the artist has made long-term observations about the ability of cactuses to survive in Latvia’s environment. This is used as a metaphor for our attitude toward the different, raising the question of how phenomena which are “transplanted” to a different political, economic or cultural environment adapt and survive. Korps’ work, which was displayed at the group exhibition “Aspena – Ķemeri” (Aspen-Ķemeri, 2014), could also be read as a commentary on the neo classical sanatorium designed by Latvian architect Eižens Laube at Ķemeri (1936) and its uncertain future.

Landscape. 2014.