The ISSP, Kuš! and TUR telpa residents — Alfredo Esparza Cárdenas, Ula Rugevičiūtė Rugytė, and Jan Dickey — will present their work. They will discuss their artistic practices in photography, comics, and painting, and offer insights into their current projects in Riga.
Free entrance
Alfredo Esparza Cárdenas (
https://www.instagram.com/aesparzac/) says "My artistic research aims to generate narratives from the traces of material manifestations of human cultural life in rural environments. My work addresses how we live in territories traversed by emotions, geopolitics, culture, and social and environmental justice. Drifts, photography, video, brief actions, and ephemeral sculptures are the main means for articulating my work. Drift is the drive that triggers my production. I rely on still and moving images because they are inherently ambiguous objects for describing the Real from fiction and the poetic. With performative actions and fleeting sculptures, I improvise with found elements and materials to accentuate or highlight typical phenomenologies of everyday rural life and how they are reflected in current representations of the landscape."
Ula Rugevičiūtė Rugytė (
https://www.instagram.com/ularru/) is an illustrator, comic author and the co-founder of the Lithuanian Illustrators Association. Originally from Kaunas, Lithuania, she is currently based in Strasbourg, France, where she earned her DNSEP in La Haute école des arts du Rhin (2017). She explores visual storytelling in various forms, merging the intimate, the dream-like, and the political in her work. She has been illustrating articles and books for adult and young audiences, as well as participating in comic zines. Her illustrations for Jurga Vile’s book “Nukritę iš mėnulio. Sapnas apie Oskarą Milašių ir kitus paukščius” has been awarded “Illustration of the year” by the K.A.2023. Her first comic book “The Murmur of the Shadows” (2024) explores collective memory and the trauma of the russian occupation of Lithuania. Ula’s upcoming graphic novel is set to be published by Çà et là éditions in 2026. Her mini kuš! "Scraps of Memory" will debut at this artist talk!
Jan Dickey (
https://www.instagram.com/jan.dickey/) is a painter and curator based in Brooklyn, NY. He earned his MFA in Studio Art from the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa (2017) and his BFA from the University of Delaware (2009). He has participated in residencies at the Sam and Adele Golden Foundation for the Arts in New Berlin, NY (2023); ARTnSHELTER in Tokyo, Japan (2019); Kimmel Harding Nelson Art Center in Nebraska City, NE (2018); and Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, VT (2017). His work has been presented in solo exhibitions across the United States and in Tokyo, and has been featured in Two Coats of Paint, Impulse Magazine, ArteFuse, and Art Spiel. During his residency at TUR, Dickey has been experimenting with Latvian natural dye sources including birch leaves and underbark, oak gall, chamomile, and mushrooms.
The United Riga residency program is run in collaboration by ISSP, Kuš! and TUR Telpa, made possible thanks to the support by State Culture Capital Fundation.
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