Cushioning #1
Lauma Muižarāja
19/01 - 31/01/2024
I found out there’s this jelly-like substance that’s meant to hold the weight of both me and my mother. Some days I imagine it blue, some pink - the drawings all show it different. And if you lean too much into your right side the balance is upset. Who will be there to cushion my fall?
Cushioning #1 serves as a teaser to Lauma’s wider project Cushioning - a self-documentary body of work dealing with generational trauma manifesting in the body, and her earlier perceptions of womanhood and victimhood as synonomous.
Lauma works with found image, using it as a self-documentary tool, and primarily employs digital painting and digital collage techniques. Her practice contemplates the relationship between a two-dimensional image and the space it occupies and increasingly takes materiality into question. Lauma graduated Digital Arts Computing at Goldsmiths University of London, obtaining a Bachelors in Computer Science and is currently continuing with further study at the Masters programme POST at the Arts Academy of Latvia.
Photos: Ieva Viese
Lauma Muižarāja
19/01 - 31/01/2024
I found out there’s this jelly-like substance that’s meant to hold the weight of both me and my mother. Some days I imagine it blue, some pink - the drawings all show it different. And if you lean too much into your right side the balance is upset. Who will be there to cushion my fall?
Cushioning #1 serves as a teaser to Lauma’s wider project Cushioning - a self-documentary body of work dealing with generational trauma manifesting in the body, and her earlier perceptions of womanhood and victimhood as synonomous.
Lauma works with found image, using it as a self-documentary tool, and primarily employs digital painting and digital collage techniques. Her practice contemplates the relationship between a two-dimensional image and the space it occupies and increasingly takes materiality into question. Lauma graduated Digital Arts Computing at Goldsmiths University of London, obtaining a Bachelors in Computer Science and is currently continuing with further study at the Masters programme POST at the Arts Academy of Latvia.
Photos: Ieva Viese