Melted Lands
Atis Izands
11/05 – 27/05/2023
It is said that a great change (change of aggregate state) is brewing in the fairy forest. The creatures perceived 80% of the information visually and were unable to play out the upcoming scenario to the end. But the signs announced the beginning of the process in understandable gestures for any, who is too weak-minded to comprehend. The first sign was the disappearance of the Rosetta stone from a museum, where the colonialists bragged about shooting the last Tasmanian tiger. By suppressing sensitivity to the most ancient forms of expression, I suggested, that I use part of my survival kit and turn to the nearby Sumerian clay cuneiforms that read: “Give me one more life and I will carve a pharaoh out of stone, decorating it with melted glass, melted skin, so real and real as a pigmented variant of A, B and C, and I will give it back to the mother of the forest, sea and wind.”
The second revelation came at the same time as the enlightened states of the mystical experience of the man in the slush, writing an anti-intellectualist manifesto for the peace conference. It discusses the causes of the stagnation in spiritual awakening, and among the sources of literature used, the historical attitude towards information holders is mentioned. More specifically, a description of how a classmate in elementary school spat in library books. Unfortunately, he is gone and I no longer touch them, thus denying myself the units of volume and mass of the broken vase. Therefore, I raised dangerous hopes, but it was impossible to heal the broken vase in the storm and rain. The weather was getting dangerous, SPARKS' "Sympathy for the Abyss" was playing in the background, and I went to warm up with frogs under the frozen ground.
"Let those who were blind now see!" I have been looking for answers in self-destructive art for the past year, but only recently I realized that I already knew them since Vaira's famous speech at the Song and Dance Festival, I knew that at some point in the beginning of the 21st century, all humanity will be united in celebration. I tried to find a more appropriate soundtrack for this event on the music streaming platform, where some of the compositions were banned, the fault could be something related to China, Marxism and other new currents. It's not for nothing that one of Slavoj Žižek's books was called "Welcome to the Desert of the Real'. However, they didn't know that I had all the songs on a cassette, bought in a legal music record store, and bypassing the bans, I secretly took it out from the hiding place in the mezzanine... If you don't know what a cassette is, then I'll explain that regional museums and libraries don't welcome me yet, because probably the post-minimalist scone-baking is intended to show the butterfly man from the depths of the deep well, although it fails to offer anything other than a hybrid relation of objects. That's why I give a tribute to free surfaces, which are outstanding, but not aviable.
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Atis Izands (1986, Riga), has a MFA in Painting (Latvian Academy of Arts, 2022). Painting is the basis of his practice and works as the main driver of ideas. In his artistic practice, he works with the artistic incompleteness of forms, prompting a reevaluation of spatial and socially canonical notions.
Photo: Ieva Viese
Atis Izands
11/05 – 27/05/2023
It is said that a great change (change of aggregate state) is brewing in the fairy forest. The creatures perceived 80% of the information visually and were unable to play out the upcoming scenario to the end. But the signs announced the beginning of the process in understandable gestures for any, who is too weak-minded to comprehend. The first sign was the disappearance of the Rosetta stone from a museum, where the colonialists bragged about shooting the last Tasmanian tiger. By suppressing sensitivity to the most ancient forms of expression, I suggested, that I use part of my survival kit and turn to the nearby Sumerian clay cuneiforms that read: “Give me one more life and I will carve a pharaoh out of stone, decorating it with melted glass, melted skin, so real and real as a pigmented variant of A, B and C, and I will give it back to the mother of the forest, sea and wind.”
The second revelation came at the same time as the enlightened states of the mystical experience of the man in the slush, writing an anti-intellectualist manifesto for the peace conference. It discusses the causes of the stagnation in spiritual awakening, and among the sources of literature used, the historical attitude towards information holders is mentioned. More specifically, a description of how a classmate in elementary school spat in library books. Unfortunately, he is gone and I no longer touch them, thus denying myself the units of volume and mass of the broken vase. Therefore, I raised dangerous hopes, but it was impossible to heal the broken vase in the storm and rain. The weather was getting dangerous, SPARKS' "Sympathy for the Abyss" was playing in the background, and I went to warm up with frogs under the frozen ground.
"Let those who were blind now see!" I have been looking for answers in self-destructive art for the past year, but only recently I realized that I already knew them since Vaira's famous speech at the Song and Dance Festival, I knew that at some point in the beginning of the 21st century, all humanity will be united in celebration. I tried to find a more appropriate soundtrack for this event on the music streaming platform, where some of the compositions were banned, the fault could be something related to China, Marxism and other new currents. It's not for nothing that one of Slavoj Žižek's books was called "Welcome to the Desert of the Real'. However, they didn't know that I had all the songs on a cassette, bought in a legal music record store, and bypassing the bans, I secretly took it out from the hiding place in the mezzanine... If you don't know what a cassette is, then I'll explain that regional museums and libraries don't welcome me yet, because probably the post-minimalist scone-baking is intended to show the butterfly man from the depths of the deep well, although it fails to offer anything other than a hybrid relation of objects. That's why I give a tribute to free surfaces, which are outstanding, but not aviable.
This text contained 2497 characters.
(text - Atis Izands)
Atis Izands (1986, Riga), has a MFA in Painting (Latvian Academy of Arts, 2022). Painting is the basis of his practice and works as the main driver of ideas. In his artistic practice, he works with the artistic incompleteness of forms, prompting a reevaluation of spatial and socially canonical notions.
Photo: Ieva Viese