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- Arnis Balcus (born 1978) is a photography and video artist. Born in Riga, Latvia, Balcus lived and worked in his home town before moving to London, United Kingdom in 2004. He took an MA course on photography at University of Westminster from 2004 to 2005. He is exhibiting his work since 1994, but emerged internationally in 2003 with the photographic series Myself, Friends, Lovers and Others. Using snapshot aesthetic the series were showing the everyday of contemporary Latvian youth. In the photographic project Episodes the artist was staging various cinematic scenes on the subjects of sex and violence, referencing films by Russ Meyer, Mike Powell and John Waters. Episodes was also published as a series of three books. In early 2008 he had a solo show entitled Flowers at Riga Gallery. The color photographs were portraying naked people, each of them had chosen a different flower or plant. He addresses issues of identity and gender also in his video works. His video Xionel (2004) features a confession by a beautiful Asian transsexual, while Balcus' Latvia 1989-91 is a photo story created of artist's family snapshots from the time Latvia regained its independence from USSR. He published a book of ambiguous black and white self-portraits, Desire to be Adored in 1999 and a book of snapshots Myself, Friends, Lovers and Others in 2003. These were followed by Episodes Vol. I (2006), Episodes Vol. II (2007) and Behind the scenes (2007). He has had solo exhibitions at Overgaden, Copenhagen (2003), Fotogalerie Wien, Vienna (2004), Riga Gallery (2006, 2007), State Museum of Art, Riga (2004) and Matthew Bown Gallery, London (2005, 2006). Balcus' work has also been published in various art and lifestyle magazines, such as Black and White Magazine, Dazed & Confused (magazine), Flash Art Magazine, Soul Mag, Achtung Mode and many more.
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- Arnis Balcus (born 1978) is a photography and video artist. Born in Riga, Latvia, Balcus lived and worked in his home town before moving to London, United Kingdom in 2004. He took an MA course on photography at University of Westminster from 2004 to 2005. He is exhibiting his work since 1994, but emerged internationally in 2003 with the photographic series Myself, Friends, Lovers and Others. Using snapshot aesthetic the series were showing the everyday of contemporary Latvian youth.
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