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\u201c (…)<\/p>\n
Three-Generational Pedicure<\/p>\n
Once a month, for several years in a row, Alexandra comes to give us pedicure. We are women of three generations \u2013 the mother, the daughter and the grandmother. She spends an hour on each of us. Since my feet are in the worst condition, the time that is left from pedicuring the grandmother is also devoted to me.
\nGrandmother\u2019s feet are like those of a baby \u2013 no thickened heels, no corns. As for mine and my mothers feet, everything has gone wrong. Even our toes resemble those of a frog. Alexandra treats us with a dry pedicure. She has got the right qualification and on top of that works as a nurse in a psychiatry ward on Tvaika street.
\nUsing a small scalpel, just like a sculptor, she contours my feet back into their right shape. After she leaves, there is a pile of skin shreds on the floor from the feet of women from three generations \u00a0and everything in vicinity is covered in a thin coat of skin dust.
\nAs far as I am concerned, all of this should just be burned. Otherwise a sheer amount of our personal bio-information ends up in public waist. As I sweep the skin shreds into the shovel and throw them into the bin, my heart always races.<\/p>\n
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\u201cA conversation with the meat seller at the Mat\u012bsa market\u201d, an intervention by Katrina Neiburga, as part of the contemporary culture forum \u201cWhite Nights\u201d, on the 8th of September.<\/p>\n
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As Solvita Krese put in the publication for the international contemporary art festival \u201cSurvival Kit\u201d in 2011, Katr\u012bna Neiburga often works as an anthropologist. She is interested in the lives of people, such as the peculiar community of tea mushroom growers, block housing inhabitants, girls met at nightclub bathrooms, women that work as taxi drivers.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Katrina Neiburga<\/span> (1978) has a Master\u2019s degree in Visual Communication from Latvian Art Academy and she has participated in exhibitions since 2000. She has exhibited her works in Sidney and Moscow biennale, has been a candidate for Ars Fennica (2008) art prize and is the Purv\u012b\u0161a Art Prize winner (2008). The last exhibition \u201cThe Printing House\u201d (2011\/12) was on display in Riga, Helsinki and Budapest. Katrina Neiburga regularly collaborates with the sound artist\u00a0 And\u017eonis (Andris Ind\u0101ns) and has worked with the Latvian National Opera (she has done the scenography and video for the opera \u201cEugene Onegin\u201d, (2010), \u201cDoll Opera\u201d (2008) and the newest project is the video work for the opera \u201cLucia De Lammermoor\u201d (2012))","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" From the notes… \u201c (…) Three-Generational Pedicure Once a month, for several years in a row, Alexandra comes to give us pedicure. We are women of three generations \u2013 the mother, the daughter and the grandmother. She spends an hour on each of us. Since my feet are in the worst condition, the time […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,4,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-29","category-kim-exhibitions","category-past-exhibitions"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n