ISSP Gallery Riga, Latvia

ISSP Gallery, Marijas iela 13 k.3, Berga Bazārs, 1050 Riga, Latvia gallery@issp.lv | www.issp.lv

Emerging from a range of educational initiatives in contemporary photography, ISSP Gallery was established in 2018 in Riga, Latvia. Its emphasis lies on lens-based media, photography’s interaction with other mediums, as well as its use within the rapidly expanding everyday context.

We are presenting works by

Latvian artists Līga Spunde and Andrejs Strokins, whose approach varies from multimedia installations to archival research. In her work

‘When Hell is Full, the Dead

Will Walk the Earth’ Spunde focuses on the ruthlessness hidden behind forms of everyday communication and information exchange on the internet. ‘Cosmic Sadness’ by Strokins offers a new take on street photography – photographed at the right time, at the right place and from the right angle, the images show everyday made strange.

Līga Spunde, ‘The Sims. A Very Boring Game’, archival inkjet pigment print on luster paper, 155 x 110 cm, 2019

Līga Spunde, ‘When Hell Is Full, the Dead Will Walk the Earth’, archival inkjet pigment print on luster paper, 150 x 110 cm, 2019