A new exhibition looks at sex, love and dick pics in Latvia

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At Riga's Art Academy, 'To Fall in Love, Click Here' challenges old notions of sexuality and identity in a post-Soviet country.

; a furry zebra-print driving seat holds a lavender clutch bag bedazzled with the name ‘Lucifer’, containing a machete with a metallic scorpion tip.

The artist describes how “the younger generations here have a healthy relationship with sexuality”, and yet cultural legacies live on. “I did think about my parents, while making photos, who are Soviet generation and don't come from an art background. I actually didn’t even show them the exhibition, because I knew that they wouldn’t be at peace with how I portrayed sexuality… I have accepted that they come from a different background and I don’t push them to understand my work.

View from exhibition ‘To Fall in Love, Click Here’. Konstantīns Žukovs ‘Black Carnation 1’, 2021. Riga Photography Biennial – NEXT 2021. AAL Experimental art space ‘Pilot’. Photo: Madara Gritāne 3.jpg’s project began with the Black Carnation Club — an apartment-turned-social space where local men would meet for sex in the 1920s, until it was raided by police in 1926.

 

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