New research article by Līga Goldberga on Zenta Dzividzinska’s early photomontages
New research article on the origins and making of previously unpublished photomontages:
Līga Goldberga, “Vienas fotogrāfijas stāsts: Zenta Dzividzinska” [The Story of One Photograph: Zenta Dzividzinska], FK Magazine, March 11, 2024, https://fotokvartals.lv/2024/03/11/vienas-fotografijas-stasts-zenta-dzividzinska/
Līga Goldberga is the curator of Dzividzinska photo collection at the National Library of Latvia. In this research article, Goldberga sheds light on the making of several previously unpublished photomontages. To create these experimental images, Dzividzinska merged her photographs of a nude female model and ancient stone sculptures depicting mythological, androgynous/humanoid creatures that she photographed in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine, in 1967.
Zenta Dzividzinska, photo negatives, 1967. Collection of National Library of Latvia. Courtesy of collection curator Līga Goldberga.
Zenta Dzividzinska, Untitled from the series Stone Women (Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine), 1967-1970. Collection of National Library of Latvia. Courtesy of collection curator Līga Goldberga.
Zenta Dzividzinska, untitled photomontage, 1967-1970. Collection of National Library of Latvia. Courtesy of collection curator Līga Goldberga.
Some of these images were included in the exhibition “All’s Good Between Us,” curated by Andra Silapētere and organized by the Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art (LCCA). The exhibition and related programming was on view at 60A-21 Dzirnavu Street, Riga, Latvia, from February 14 to March 31, 2024. [extended until April 4]
Find out more about the exhibition here: https://www.artdays.net/news/zdz-all-is-good-between-us
Zenta Dzividzinska’s untitled images (contemporary exhibition prints) in the exhibition “All’s Good Between Us,” Riga, Latvia. 2024. Photo: Līga Goldberga.
Untitled photomontages by Zenta Dzividzinska (contemporary exhibition prints) in the exhibition “All’s Good Between Us", Riga, Latvia. 2024. Image source: https://www.facebook.com/100063520661838/posts/897192739074740/?mibextid=xfxF2i&rdid=gz8MlEZbdYKW4Ig0
