Forgotten space Print

Laura Veļa uses identity and time research as inspiration for her artworks revealing contemporary anxiety and doing research on new forms and techniques. In the last years, the artist focuses on developing her own technique combining old school of painting and drawing with new media and materials. The main impulse comes from social environment, searching for own identity as a bridge from past to future. In the artworks, there are references to the influence of trauma of Soviet occupation on Latvian identity as well as to theories and mythology of quantum physics. The artist works with wide range of materials, mainly creating paintings, but also installations, video art and performances. Laura Veļa has studied piano, Information Technology, image processing and painting. In 2017, she graduated from the Art Academy of Latvia and won a grant from the Boris and Inara Teterev Foundation for her MA studies. Since 2014, she has been participating in many group exhibitions and has had a solo show in Kalnciems Quarter Gallery (Riga). Laura Vela’s artworks are located in private collections in Latvia, the US, the Netherlands, France and Germany.