installations
MIGRANT’S ALTAR. FAREWELL
installationsIs Maria Gvardeitseva’s heartbreaking journey to her true self, an intense sorrow delimiting her past from her future and a showcase of the price of freedom.
SPECIAL PROJECT FOR UNICEF
installationsThrough her special project for UNICEF in Belarus Maria creates a metaphorical try-walking-in my shoes metaphor in order to display the stories of the most vulnerable of us - children
CARGO-200
installationsOn February 24, 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine. The inhuman violence of what the Russian Federation calls "the special military operation" as well as the courage of the Ukrainians shocked humanity.
KNITTING ISOLATION OUT
Fine artA story of the artist's quarantine isolation and expands to some fundamental issues such as imposed gender roles and finding one's authentic self in the context of everchanging world around us.
EVENTS
March 1-31 2023
MIGRANT’S ALTAR. FAREWELL
In 2016, due to Belarus political reality of increasing terror of Lukashenko’s dictatorship Maria Gvardeitseva left her homeland and immigrated to Latvia. In 2022 the process of citizenship refusal is finalized and she has to deliver her passeport to the nearest Consulate. The artist shapes this auto-exile, a painful separation from her Motherland in « Migrant’s Altar. Farewell ».
The Roots Gallery
Pisa, Italy
18-20 January 2023
TERRA PATRIA LIBERI
Сhildhood Memories Archive of Shaping Patriotism. Group show with Yawen Cai, Hamish Macdougall and Graciela Wimmer
The Goldsmiths University
London, UK