On Thursday, February 5, at 5 p.m. in the exhibition hall of the Liepāja Music, Art and Design Secondary School, Alejas Street 18, the exhibition “Blue Shift” will be opened, which will feature various visual and interactive works of art, as well as augmented reality experiences in the ART+ application.

In this exhibition, the “blue shift” becomes a metaphor for changes in our perception and relationship with marine and aquatic ecologies, technologies and human presence in environmental processes.

The works in the exhibition focus on the sea as a sensitive, changing and significant environment – ​​the ecologies of the Baltic Sea, water pollution, climate change, the human footprint and the role of technology in the perception and interpretation of these processes.

Artists in the exhibition: Arūnė Baronaitė (LT), Diana Lelis, Rebeka Lasmane, Maija Demitere, Marta Zomerovska, Zane Zelmene, Ivo Tauriņš, Jekaterina Jevdokimova, Madara Kronberga, etc.

The exhibition will be open from February 5 to 26 on weekdays from 12:00 to 19:00.

The exhibition is implemented within the framework of the program “Liepāja 2027”, using the funding allocated by the Ministry of Culture, Liepāja City, South Kurzeme and Kuldīga regions. The festival is organized by the Liepāja Media Art Society ASTE (https://aste.gallery) and the Art Research Laboratory (MPLab) of the RTU Liepāja Academy. “UPDATE: Blue Shift” is supported by the foundation “Liepāja 2027”, Liepāja Municipality, Liepāja Municipality Institution “Cultural Administration”, Kurzeme Planning Region, VKKF, RTU Liepāja Academy.