Sensitive place
Ieva Viese
02/10 - 31/10/2027
Sensitive Place (Jutīga vieta) is a solo exhibition by Ieva Viese exploring communication, memory, presence, and distance. Spatial and sculptural objects, text, sound, and images come together to create an environment in which the telephone and telephone directory become imaginative devices for reflecting on human connections, technological anxieties, layers of time, and the unexpected arrival of insects and bugs.
At the centre of the exhibition is a functioning telephone booth featuring a wide range of audio recordings, alongside an artist’s book in the form of a telephone directory, Diengraužu lapas / Day-Gnawer Pages. The book contains alphabetically arranged words and excerpts from the artist’s online diary entries written between 2004 and 2026. They can be called through a local telephone network. The publication also features three personal conversations about childhood and teenage telephone calls, privacy, availability, intimacy, and the role of technology in maintaining relationships. It also includes advertisements by artists that have helped cover the costs of publishing the telephone directory; materials compiled and translated by Ainārs Kamoliņš on the influence of the telephone as a technological phenomenon on human thought; as well as works of fiction.
The exhibition was developed within the collaborative environment of the artist-run DOM Gallery. Colleagues Liene Rumpe and Elīna Salnāja contribute personal conversations to the book, exploring childhood memories, intimacy, communication, and the role of the telephone in human relationships. Elīna Salnāja also designed the exhibition’s visual materials. Ainārs Kamoliņš collaborated on the book’s content and contributed a playful, dystopian conversation about humans and technology. The book was designed by Lidija Zaneripa from DOM collective and edited by Marija Leskavniece. Ronalds Breikšs and Emīls Jansons worked on the telephone programming, while Ansis Bergmanis designed and built the telephone booth structures together with the artist.
Ieva Viese (b. 1987) is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, researcher, and educator, and one of the founders of the artist-run DOM Gallery. At the centre of Viese’s artistic practice is installation as a means of bringing together narratives, materials, images, and the viewer’s experience within a space. Her practice encompasses sculptural objects, text, sound, moving and still images, as well as interactivity.
She graduated from the Art Academy of Latvia with a bachelor’s degree in Movement. Image. Sound (2023) and a master’s degree from the POST programme (2025), as well as from the Latvian Academy of Culture with a bachelor’s degree in Audiovisual Culture (2010) and a master’s degree in Cultural Theory (2012). Her educational background in audiovisual culture, cultural theory, and contemporary art informs her approach to installation as a spatial, narrative, and research-based practice. In her work, Viese explores themes of embodiment, memory, communication, and understanding, investigating how forms and meanings transform and resonate with one another.
Photos: Ieva Viese
Ieva Viese
02/10 - 31/10/2027
Sensitive Place (Jutīga vieta) is a solo exhibition by Ieva Viese exploring communication, memory, presence, and distance. Spatial and sculptural objects, text, sound, and images come together to create an environment in which the telephone and telephone directory become imaginative devices for reflecting on human connections, technological anxieties, layers of time, and the unexpected arrival of insects and bugs.
At the centre of the exhibition is a functioning telephone booth featuring a wide range of audio recordings, alongside an artist’s book in the form of a telephone directory, Diengraužu lapas / Day-Gnawer Pages. The book contains alphabetically arranged words and excerpts from the artist’s online diary entries written between 2004 and 2026. They can be called through a local telephone network. The publication also features three personal conversations about childhood and teenage telephone calls, privacy, availability, intimacy, and the role of technology in maintaining relationships. It also includes advertisements by artists that have helped cover the costs of publishing the telephone directory; materials compiled and translated by Ainārs Kamoliņš on the influence of the telephone as a technological phenomenon on human thought; as well as works of fiction.
The exhibition was developed within the collaborative environment of the artist-run DOM Gallery. Colleagues Liene Rumpe and Elīna Salnāja contribute personal conversations to the book, exploring childhood memories, intimacy, communication, and the role of the telephone in human relationships. Elīna Salnāja also designed the exhibition’s visual materials. Ainārs Kamoliņš collaborated on the book’s content and contributed a playful, dystopian conversation about humans and technology. The book was designed by Lidija Zaneripa from DOM collective and edited by Marija Leskavniece. Ronalds Breikšs and Emīls Jansons worked on the telephone programming, while Ansis Bergmanis designed and built the telephone booth structures together with the artist.
Ieva Viese (b. 1987) is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, researcher, and educator, and one of the founders of the artist-run DOM Gallery. At the centre of Viese’s artistic practice is installation as a means of bringing together narratives, materials, images, and the viewer’s experience within a space. Her practice encompasses sculptural objects, text, sound, moving and still images, as well as interactivity.
She graduated from the Art Academy of Latvia with a bachelor’s degree in Movement. Image. Sound (2023) and a master’s degree from the POST programme (2025), as well as from the Latvian Academy of Culture with a bachelor’s degree in Audiovisual Culture (2010) and a master’s degree in Cultural Theory (2012). Her educational background in audiovisual culture, cultural theory, and contemporary art informs her approach to installation as a spatial, narrative, and research-based practice. In her work, Viese explores themes of embodiment, memory, communication, and understanding, investigating how forms and meanings transform and resonate with one another.
Photos: Ieva Viese