Bio : Born 1977 in Riga, Latvia, part of the former Soviet Union. Lives and works in Riga, Latvia.
Description : The works of Kri?s Salmanis invite us to play an intellectual and ironic game – sometimes also hide-and-seek. A proportion of his works, despite – or maybe thanks to – its lovely design, are a witty, but also quite a stinging comment on today's world and its perceptions. Kri?s Salmanis often uses/abuses universally approbated visual language, ever so slightly altering the common “orthography” thus changing the meaning as well. More often than not in his videos, animations and objects, the loop is present either as a symptomatic form of composition or a mental device alluding to the “complicated futility” of our existence.