Laimdota Malle

For the past 5 years, Laimdota Malle has quietly but actively worked across varied media, including drawing, printing, sculpture, and animated images in order to create installations with a specific interest in questioning meanings of collective and personal experiences. Through her own experience and trauma, combined with the need to research, understand and collect, she creates metaphorical stories that reveal new kinds of landscapes and realities of the past, present and the future. These fragmented landscapes persist in the liminal space and time between the real and fantasy. Using various techniques she is recording impressions and affects through copying on different surfaces and materialities, as well as recreating images from photographs in order to create a collection with pieces of everything that surrounds her. Strategic placement of works in several layers and planned distances, and colored silicone and paraffin sculptures create animated sculptural objects that capture movement and encapsulate memory of something moving, appearing and persisting in the fragile space between our and other reality. These stories and scenes emerge, telling how impossible it is to keep something who has decided to disappear and what impressions it leaves.