LATVIA

Between 1990 and 1999, Riga experienced a historical period in which it emerged as a major centre of experimental creative avant-garde, also thanks to the Untamed Fashion Assemblies (UFA), a series of experimental fashion, art, and performance events curated by Bruno Birmanis. The Latvian Pavilion presents an installation based on digitised videos from Birmanis’s archive, inviting the audience to see if the utopian visions of those events can still be applied to the present, increasingly marked by tensions that challenge creative force and political freedom.