✨Meet the artists of the Latvian Pavilion
@untamedassembly at the 61st International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia!
Untamed Assembly: Backstage of Utopia presents newly commissioned work by artist duo MAREUNROL’S that has emerged in dialogue with the archives of Untamed Fashion Assemblies – a series of experimental fashion, art, and performance events held in
@riga.lv between 1990 and 1999 that were initiated by alternative fashion designer Bruno Birmanis.
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@mareunrols (Mārīte Mastiņa-Pēterkopa and Rolands Pēterkops) are working at the intersection of visual art and design, they continually push boundaries, often positioning fashion beyond its traditionally functional role.
The duo’s distinctive approach is a poetic expression of magical realism, emphasising narrative as an artwork, expressed through their interdisciplinary practice, which comprises fabric and textile sculptures, fashion design collections, installations, video and sound art, drawings, photography collages, as well as costume design and scenography for opera and theatre.
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@brunobirmanis is an artist, performance maker, and curator whose practice unfolds at the intersection of conceptual fashion, the body, and spatial imagination. His work approaches fashion not as a functional system but as a cultural language – capable of articulating ideas, emotions, and collective experience.
In the early 1990s he initiated and created the Untamed Fashion Assembly. Emerging at a moment of political and social rupture, the Assembly became a transnational space for freedom, non-conformism, and creative risk, bringing together young artists from across Europe and redefining fashion as a performative and critical act.
✨Explore the concept they have envisioned for the
@labiennale together with the curators
@adomas.n &
@lace.inga ➡️ www.latvianpavilion.lv
Photo: Ralfs Cimmermanis
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