We’re excited to welcome you to the opening on Friday, June 12th, from 6 to 9 PM!
Daughters of the Sun, Venus, driftwood, 20 billion bacteria, mystery flavours and other hefty visions I (didn’t) have by the sea while visiting my grandparents
Deivids Mārtiņš Kasparsons
Curated by Kaspars Groševs un Irma Marija Tukāne
12/06 – 1/08/2026
“They call it seasickness or, sometimes, motion sickness. It happens when conflicting signals are being sent to your brain, so your body doesn’t really know whether it is moving or not. It is always worse when you are not moving, but think that you are. Smug and pompous you bare your teeth at others, so sure you are making progress. Turns out, you’re drifting in the sea. What a shame. Anyway, the only ailment I would call seasickness is being far away from it. Sometimes, I travel by bus and I hate it. Once, I traveled for three days, from Stockholm to Copenhagen on a yacht. No mermaid in sight, but I threw up as soon I set foot on land ho!”
Deivids Mārtiņš Kasparsons (Riga/Copenhagen), born in September 2001, is a painter. After graduating from the Royal Danish Academy, Kasparsons has returned to Latvia and operates from Zvejniekciems. “Daughters of the Sun, Venus, driftwood, 20 billion bacteria, mystery flavours and other hefty visions I (didn’t) have by the sea while visiting my grandparents” is the artist’s first solo exhibition that has been carefully calibrated to foreground a visceral and unapologetic expression of self. Kasparsons claims the sea is his leitmotif and refers to himself as a “common water strider”. His contemporary landscapes challenge realism’s authority of the world we inhabit.
Support: VKKF (State Culture Capital Foundation), Riga City Council