Eimanda Zeina Collection exhibition

26.07. - 25.08.2019
Creative Studio of the ARSENĀLS Exhibition Hall of the Latvian National Museum of Art
Riga, Latvia

The exhibition turns to the process of assembling a collection and making collection exhibitions as one of the possible exhibition formats. Systematically converting a mass of associations and ideas into objects, Amanda Ziemele and Hanele Zane Putniņa have set up the Eimanda Zeina collection of objects. The exhibition investigates the principles on which collections and collection exhibitions are made. What are the criteria that confirm the significance, longevity and obviousness of collection items? Who determines what becomes a treasure of the collection and what will forever gather dust on the shelves or become lost in order to remain unnoticed?

Created by both authors, Eimanda Zeina is a character, which during the process of making the works is assumed as a shared identity – the originator of the idea, driver of collaboration and author of the exhibition. Eimanda Zeina’s collection includes large-format painterly and printmaking finds, remainders, an ancient mural, linguistic creatures and other bearers of meaning, forming a staged situation which is built according to the principle ‘from the concrete to the abstract’.

Curator: Līna Birzaka-Priekule
Text: Līna Birzaka-Priekule
Photos: Līga Spunde