3rd European textile and Fibre Art Festival - Catalogue

DAIGA ÍTÅLBERGA SENOUSSAOUI
Latvia / France Latvija / Francija
Born 1963
26, allée des Bergeronnettes
77420 Champs sur Marne, France
Education
2003 MA in Arts, Art Academy
of Latvia
1984–1989 BA in Arts, Art Academy
of Latvia; Textile Art
Department
1978–1982 Riga Design and Art School;
Textile Art Department,
Latvia
Selected exhibitions
2006 “The Two-way Motion”,
Museum of Decorative
Arts and Design, Riga,
Latvia
“The Art of Fibre...The
Fibre of Art“ – Spaces
Cultural the Minimes,
Compiegne, France
2005 “Autumn Salon 2005”,
Floral Park of Paris, France
2004 Solo exhibition, Museum –
Melngalvju House, Riga,
Latvia
1996 Solo exhibition „The Gate”,
Museum of Foreign Art,
Riga, Latvia
1994 “10 th International
Symposium of Textile
Art”, Graz, Austria,
”Raiffeisenhof centre” and
”Galerie im
Fernmeldezentrum”
Focusing on the positive aspects of globalization
as an ongoing process that leads to
increased connectivity through the rise of
global communications and consequently
cross-cultural contacts that inevitably broaden
and enrich our cultural perspective, I
have chosen to draw inspiration for this
work from sources distant from my own in
both temporal and cultural planes. Working
in my own author’s technique, I selected
columns as an external structure. Here,
columns not only have a supporting function,
but also jointly form a gate into an
Oriental garden, as well as create an ambience
of the garden itself.
The content of these columns has been drawn
from ornaments of different cultures woven
together into a modern lacework that provides
the columns with a sense of lightness
as opposed to the complex ornamental message.
With this I turn your attention to the
inexhaustible wealth of East Asian culture
and welcome you to the Oriental Garden –
a place for peaceful contemplation.
Awards
2004 Prize of the Senator –
Mayor Alain Gournac,
“27 th Salon of Alpicois
Arts”, Le Pecq, France
2004 Silver medal, International
Salon of the European
Academy of Arts 2004,
Paris, France
Works in collections
Museum of Decorative Arts and
Design, Riga, Latvia
Works in various interiors and private
collections in Latvia, France, Austria,
Germany
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