In June, we are thrilled to welcome Ingvild Melberg Eikeland and Sabīne Šnē to the residency.

Ingvild Melberg Eikeland works across material-based and digital media, combining them into installations through storytelling. Her artistic practice builds on investigations into the valence of myth and mythos and the role of narrative in forming cultural imaginaries and sustaining hegemonic structures. Eikeland’s work is developed through imagining alternate realities and in shifting the perspectives of the self-soothing stories humans make up to comfort themselves during environmental and political crises. Through critical fabulation and the appropriation of knowledge systems and tools, such as language and data, these stories are reimagined and voiced by nonhuman and material actants.

Sabīne Šnē explores relationships between humans and the more-than-human, focusing on how organisms and elements sustain life on Earth and how resource extraction impacts them. Her practice spans video, 3D animation, sound, writing, sculpture, and drawing. Šnē’s works have been shown internationally through solo exhibitions, group exhibitions and video screenings across Europe, the UK and Canada.

The residency is supported by the State Culture Capital Foundation of Latvia (Valsts kultūrkapitāla fonds).