{"id":9229,"date":"2026-04-16T12:15:39","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T09:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kim.lv\/?p=9229"},"modified":"2026-04-16T12:57:58","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T09:57:58","slug":"eden-wet-work-over-lap-may-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kim.lv\/en\/eden-wet-work-over-lap-may-29\/","title":{"rendered":"EDEN: Wet Work Over Lap MAY 29 at Hanzas street 22!"},"content":{"rendered":" <\/p>\n

Cammisa Buerhaus, Zenta Dzividzinska, Sophia Giovannitti, Evija Kri\u0161topane, Reba Maybury, Elza S\u012ble \u2a59 Aly Milk, Mindy Seu, SAGG Napoli, Sylvie Fleury, Sophie Thun, Sab\u012bne Vernere, and Paula Zvane<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Curated by: Zane Onckule<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Venue:<\/span><\/b> Kim? off-site future address: Hanzas street 22, Riga<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Exhibition dates:<\/span><\/b> May 30 – July 12, 2026\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Opening:<\/span><\/b> May 29, 6-10 pm as part of Riga Art Week (RAW)\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Opening evening performances:<\/span><\/b> Paula Zvane, Cammisa Buerhaus, <\/span>Liudmila<\/span><\/i>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

May 30 4 pm:<\/span><\/b> performative-lecture <\/span>Confession Prototype 1<\/span><\/i> by Sophia Giovannitti<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

July 3 7:30 pm: <\/span><\/b>performative-lecture<\/span> The Sexual History of Internet<\/span><\/i> by Mindy Seu as part of Riga Contemporary 2026<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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EDEN: Wet Work Over Lap<\/span><\/i> stages desire as labor and sex as one of its most regulated, exhausted, and persistently unfinished forms. The title, <\/span>EDEN: Wet Work Over Lap,<\/span><\/i> draws on the double meaning of \u201cwet work,\u201d referring both to covert operations and to forms of labor that leave a trace. It is these practices and artworks which expand sexual, emotional, and domestic work into modes of maintenance that accumulate, rather than resolve, into meaning. \u201cOver Lap\u201d signals repetition and spill, where actions do not conclude but instead extend across time, overlapping, leaking, and returning.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Throughout <\/span>EDEN: Wet Work Over Lap<\/span><\/i>, the notion of sexualized labor-work functions as both obligation and survival tactic, operating simultaneously as an aesthetic and a strategy for artistic emancipation. Exhibition participants\u2014figures of intimate, creative labor\u2014<\/span>working girls<\/span><\/i>, attention operators, and mediators of intimacy, render desire procedural, scheduled, rehearsed, and reproducible. Their body (of work) is maintained, trained, corrected, and optimized, its value measured in stamina\u2014the capacity to sustain a pose, a mood, and a charge.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The exhibition behaves like both a body and a system: disciplined yet responsive, humid and self-aware, and constantly alert to its own exposure. Here, sex operates less as a discrete event than as an atmosphere\u2014a low pressure zone shaping posture, attention, and endurance over extended durations. Desire becomes a climate to inhabit rather than a moment to complete. It detaches from fixed endings, dispersing into works, surfaces, and treatments of space, in waiting, in looking, in the subtle negotiations of proximity and access, where pleasure accumulates precisely by refusing closure.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

With new and existing art works, installations, and performances spanning from analogue processes to \u201cdigital wetwares\u201d, <\/span>EDEN: Wet Work Over Lap<\/span><\/i> sustains the infrastructure of desire through exhibition areas associatively shifting between functional sites: bedroom-after hour zone into auditorium, bathroom-wet room into confessional, gym into club into\u00a0 darkroom – all towards a central hall (\u201c<\/span>aktu z\u0101le\u201d)<\/span><\/i>, carrying the double meaning of \u201c<\/span>akts\u201d<\/span><\/i>, act and nude, finally climaxing in an exhibitionary attempt to center the concept of exposure as both a performance and condition at once.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In the background of societal-environmental collapse and the widespread resurgence of hatred, prejudice, and bigotry\u2014especially where freedom of erotic and artistic expression is concerned\u2014<\/span>EDEN: Wet Work Over Lap<\/span><\/i> treats, firstly, censorship\u2014the <\/span>other oldest profession<\/span><\/i>\u2014not as a prohibition but as an intentional gesture, and, secondly, sin as an age old myth born out of the garden of Eden, less as an origin story than as a management problem.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Reframing perspectives from culturally and societally imposed models of embodied authority and inherited hierarchies that privilege certain modes of looking and consumption, the exhibition is an <\/span>act<\/span><\/i> itself that acknowledges, centers, and supports women as protagonists and house masters in an attempt to set their own rhythm, manage their own environment, and closely guarding and practice exposure on their own terms.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Control over rhythm, gaze, and terms remains provisional, requiring constant realignment. Power circulates as much through measured concession as it does through overt assertion, and those who appear to accommodate often structure the encounter from within, exposing uneven distributions of attention, entitlement, and reward. Refusal becomes a technique, and strategic abstinence suspends completion and holds energy in reserve. In this way, authority and ownership are relational and a practice of attentiveness, pressure, duration, and resistance, while desire remains ambivalent, seductive, and self-actualized, binding pleasure to labor-work in ways that never fully dry.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Please note that the exhibition contains erotic and sexual themes. The exhibition is not recommended for visitors under 18, and minors may enter only with an adult.<\/span><\/i><\/b>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Project Director: Evita Goze<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Project Management: Jegors Buimisters<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Communication: Kristi\u0101na B\u0113rza<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Design: Kri\u0161s Salmanis<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Latvian proofediting: Ilze Jansone<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

English proofediting: Elizaveta Schneyderman<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Festival supporters: Ministry of Culture, Riga City Council, State Culture Capital Foundation<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>Festival partners: Riga Contemporary 2026, Riga Art Week (RAW)<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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