BROKEN LINE
2008 - ...
The work series ‘Broken Line’ is a visual investigation that is both autobiographical and documentary about the lost identity and the hopeless life of the last Soviet generation in Latvia.
Focus
For my parents EU exists only in screens of Television. After the collapse of Soviet Union in early 90s they never travelled out of Latvia because of miserable pension that enough to survive but not live. My parents were born in 1931 (father) and 1939 (mother). Their youth and active life has passed in the period of the Soviet regime in Latvia. In a peculiar way, their life symbolises that of many elderly people in Latvia and the entire post-Soviet space.
In the photography series ‘Broken Line’, I pictured my parents, relatives, friends, the rapidly changing Latvia environment and myself. It is important for me to perceive and reveal the links between individual and collective social experience and the way it is manifested in Latvian visual environment.
© Alnis Stakle
photographs
Archival Pigment ink prints on rag paper sizes ere variable 17cm x 21cm up to 140cm x 200cm (ed 10)
2008 - ...
The work series ‘Broken Line’ is a visual investigation that is both autobiographical and documentary about the lost identity and the hopeless life of the last Soviet generation in Latvia.
Focus
For my parents EU exists only in screens of Television. After the collapse of Soviet Union in early 90s they never travelled out of Latvia because of miserable pension that enough to survive but not live. My parents were born in 1931 (father) and 1939 (mother). Their youth and active life has passed in the period of the Soviet regime in Latvia. In a peculiar way, their life symbolises that of many elderly people in Latvia and the entire post-Soviet space.
In the photography series ‘Broken Line’, I pictured my parents, relatives, friends, the rapidly changing Latvia environment and myself. It is important for me to perceive and reveal the links between individual and collective social experience and the way it is manifested in Latvian visual environment.
© Alnis Stakle
photographs
Archival Pigment ink prints on rag paper sizes ere variable 17cm x 21cm up to 140cm x 200cm (ed 10)