ALNIS STAKLE

Alnis Stakle(1975) lives and works in Latvia. He studied education sciences at Daugavpils University and is PhD candidate in art education. Since 1998, his works has been exhibited in numerous museums around the world like the Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art, Modern Art Oxford (GB), Langhans Gallery in Prague (CZ), Russian State Center of Photography in St. Petersburg (RU), Contemporary Art Museum in Santo Domingo (E), and the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Buenos Aires (AR).

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Lost

I am interested in the urban environment as a phenomenon which is basically a product of social experience. The existence of any city is rooted in basic human needs – to be warm, safe and part of one's community. Nowadays, however, the cities have turned into immeasurable agglomerations in whose social and consequently architectural constructions people have found not only shelter and security, but also disorder, alienation and loneliness.The series ‹L.S.D.›, ‹Home Sweet Home›, ‹Half Life›, ‹Lost: Paris› are both documentary & autobiographical psychogeography based investigation into complicated ties between human beings and their physical environment. I discovered that the sense of being lost is the most common meaning that describes the existence of a contemporary human being in a self-created urbanized environment. With my works I do not wish to recount a particular event in a specific space and time. My practice explicitly includes the search for new methods of apprehending urban environment. The most important reason for my choosing this approach to studying urban environment is to construct subjective experience and knowledge that is visually and conceptually not based on a traditional editorial approach or documentary storytelling strategies used in photography.

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Alnis Stakle, ‹L.S.D.› (Living Space Daugavpils), 2002 — 2008