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From mother’s annoyance to self-acceptance – the new graphic “Memory” in children’s and youth books / Article / LSM.lv

Books for children and young people with unique illustrations have been created by new graphic artists of the Latvian Academy of Arts (LAA). At the moment, they are still only in one or a few copies, but it is to be hoped that in time they will find their way to the readers. The exhibition “Memories” features fourteen books, and you can also read them on site. This was a great opportunity for students to experience the creation of books from idea to hard copy. It is also important that next year they will travel to the Bologna children’s book market in Italy.

This is already the fifth year when master students of the Department of Graphics of the Latvian Academy of Arts are creating illustration books – from an idea to a bound end result. This time, by visualizing the topic “Memories”, already at the beginning of the school year, the age group of children and youth for whom the book will be intended will be drawn.

Guna Poga, a master’s student at the Department of Graphics at the Latvian Academy of Arts, for example, has created a handbook for young parents “Mammanuāls”.

“The work was created through self-irony, perhaps one could compare this documentation with Jaunsudrabiņš’s” White Book “, where a person’s daily life is recorded, possibly also for future generations,” says the artist.

“This book is a documentary story, a documentation combined with an interpretation of living with an infant.”

A total of fourteen picture books have been created for the youngest and finest teenagers, as well as for young adults, as well as their parents.

Dagne Devjatnikova, a master’s student at the Department of Graphics at the Latvian Academy of Arts, had to create a work for 10 to 12-year-old children.

“I realized that making a book is easier with real life experience, because then it is the truest,” says the artist. “So I use my life experiences at the age of 12, which was relevant to me – it was my life with my younger brother.”

This is how the work of a brother and sister arose – their disputes, but also friendship. “They’re once again fighting and being punished for that battle, and then … creating a fantasy flight about being able to further drag the parents who punished them. It is about the friendship between brother and sister, about the fact that it is also beautiful and very difficult for parents, ”explains Devjatnikova.

“How to make my mother angry – for example, to fill a room with snails, is not from the true story of my life. [..] Blowing out all my mother’s perfume around the room, which is a real event when I blew my mother’s precious perfume on the window as a child, because I thought she would like it if it smelled so good. [..] Then it’s about bringing the contents of the sandbox into the room to have a sandbox indoors. ”

“In the end, the mother can’t stand it, is bloated with anger and then explodes with anger,” reveals the artist.

Meanwhile, Patricia Mara Vilsone, a master’s student at the Department of Graphics at the Latvian Academy of Arts, has had a lot to create a work for teenagers – 13 to 15 years old, and a “silent book” has been created, which does not contain any text.

The artist says: “The first task was to research the target audience, it was a very interesting task, I was lucky, my cousin is at that age and she has very responsive friends, then I sent all kinds of questionnaires and they answered.”

“I decided to focus on a rather universal problem or issue that arises at that age,” Wilson continues. “It simply came to our notice then. It is a process of change – what happens to my body, to my spiritual world.

And then my book “Mirror” is about self-acceptance, falling in love and a reminder that you are the best for yourself. “

The exhibition “Memories” can be viewed until August 20 in the art space “Aminori” in Riga.

Participants in the exhibition: Antra Agrena, Ivita Brūdere, Aija Bley, Dagne Devjanikova, Ingrīda Ivane, Kristaps Kramiņš, Līva Ozola, Guna Poga, Alise Rudēvica, Sanita Skalbe, Sanita Skvarnaviča, Anna Vaivare, Patrīcija Māra Vilsone, Linda Jākobsone-Vākere

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