Anna Aizsilniece
"Why are we doing investments to import things and care for them, if there is already, for example, a mugwort that feels great here," asks the artist.
Art conceptions of Aizsilniece are based on her own life settings - for the fourth year she lives in a country house near Aiviekste river (200 km from Riga). She uses the nature around and everyday work as a creative workshop. Anna Aizsilniece was born in 1966 in Riga (until 2014 her name was Ingrīda Zābere). She graduated the Department of Decorators of Riga Art and Design Secondary School (1985), and the Graphic Design Department of Art Academy of Latvia (1991), and got her MA degree in fashion design at the International Institute of Design in Naples (Istituto Superiore di Design) in Italy (2010). As a creative director, she managed her own design and printing company "Dizaina serviss SCSH” (1994-1997); created designs for popular magazines - "Una”, “Cosmopolitan” (in Latvia), “Dizaina Studija”, “Ir Nauda”, “Kapitāls” and art catalogues; author of many book designs for publishing houses “Neputns”, “Aminori”, “Dienas Grāmata”, “Latvijas Mediji”, “Zvaigzne ABC”, “Latvijas Vēstnesis” and the publications of the Latvian National Museum of Art, Riga Motor Museum. Since 2009, she has been creating unique clothing collections from recycled ready-made clothes under the brand Recycled.lv, which were presented at the solo exhibition "Recycled.lv. Conceptual gowns" in the Riga Art Space (2011), on view at the Baltic Fashion Catwalk in Berlin (2013), in the performance "Ethnography" at the Museum of Decorative Arts and Design in Riga (2014). The artist is a member of the contemporary art group "LN Women's League Project" (since 1997).