Israeli artist Tanya Preminger has started work on the land art object “Ritual Cut” in Pedvāle Open Air Art Museum on 28 July.

Since 7 June the creative season 2009 “Stone. Movement” is going on in Pedvāle Park. This year an international project “Memories of the Future” is carried out, including several activities of both visual and process arts. The project entails cooperation between the Latvian artist Ojārs Arvīds Feldbergs and Israeli artist Tanya Preminger. It began on 7 June with the performances “Latvian Stone Seed for Israel” in Pedvāle and “Holy Earth for Latvia” in Park Dina, Arsuf Kedem in Israel.

On 7 June, the same day when “Latvian Stone Seed” was taken out in Pedvāle, the artist Tanya Preminger started preparation work in Park Dina, Arsuf Kedem (Israel) for her project in Pedvāle. She took Israeli soil that has been brought to Pedvāle now and will be used, creating the land art work “Ritual Cut”.

Two land art works will be made as parts of the project. One will be created by Tanya Preminger in Pedvāle, the other – by Ojārs Arvīds Feldbergs in Park Dina, Israel.

On 28 July Tanya Preminger started work on the land art object “Ritual Cut”. Similar to ritual cuts to the human body, creating scars that symbolised a certain social status and experience, Preminger’s work will be a sort of ritual cut to the body of Earth. The soil taken from Israel will be worked in the artwork. The artist wants to express the idea that Earth has the same body all over this planet.

On 9 August at 12.00 pm there will be a festive opening of the object “Ritual Cut”.

Performance “Holy Earth for Latvia”
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