Danute Līva + Darya Akhrameika
Danute Līva (1998, Latvia) is an artistic researcher whose practice engages with space and materials through research, fieldwork, writing, and making. She is intrigued by spaces that have been affected by external factors – such as governmental decisions and large engineering projects – and how they influence communities, culture and environment. She has been part of the artistic research network Baltic Lines, which explores the Rail Baltica megaproject. Danute has participated in several group exhibitions, held one solo exhibition, and works as an editor for Failed Architecture, a spatial criticism online magazine.
Darya Akhrameika (born in 1997 in Minsk, Belarus) is a spatial designer and architectural researcher. She graduated from the Architecture College in Minsk and later from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam. Her practice sits at the intersection of visual art, architectural design, and research. Working with illustration, scenography, and immersive spatial installations, she often explores themes related to global politics and their impact on built environments, with a particular focus on Western-Eastern European relationships.
Danute and Darya work together on the project Piedruja-Druja, about the eastern EU borderland. The research-based project “Piedruja-Druja” focuses on the village of the same name, located on the border between Latvia and Belarus, divided by a river that serves as a borderline. The project deals with numerous layers of the borderland: the humanitarian crisis, militarisation of the border area, divided community and blended-cultural landscape.
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