On Thursday, February 5, at 17:00, the exhibition “Blue Shift” will open in the exhibition hall of the Liepāja Music, Art, and Design Secondary School at 18 Alejas Street. It will feature various visual and interactive artworks, as well as augmented reality experiences. The exhibition will be open from February 5 to February 26 on weekdays from 12:00 to 19:00.
The title of the exhibition, “Blue Shift,” is borrowed from the astronomical concept describing a spectral shift toward the blue end of the spectrum, indicating movement, approach, and increasing energy. In this exhibition, “blue shift” becomes a metaphor for changes in our perception and relationships with marine and water ecologies, technology, and human presence in environmental processes.
The works in the exhibition focus on the sea as a sensitive, changing, and significant environment—Baltic Sea ecology, water pollution, climate change, the human footprint, and the role of technology in perceiving and interpreting these processes. Artists use digital media, interactive installations, and various visual forms to invite the viewer to pay attention to processes that often remain invisible or abstract in daily life.
The exhibition encourages thinking about the significance of “blue” space not only as a natural resource but also as a field of culture, memory, and responsibility, where human actions and choices become part of broader ecological and social processes.
Artists in the exhibition: Arūnė Baronaitė (LT), Diana Lelis, Līga Vēliņa, Rebeka Lasmane, Maija Demitere, Marta Zomerovska, Zane Zelmene, Ivo Tauriņš, Jekaterina Jevdokimova, Madara Kronberga, and others.
As part of the exhibition, new augmented reality works will be launched in the ART+ mobile app. These augmented reality artworks will be viewable in various locations throughout the city of Liepāja. To view the works, a smartphone or tablet with GPS and an internet connection is required; users must download or update the ART+ app and go to the specific location of the artwork. Currently, 50 augmented reality artworks are already viewable in Liepāja.
The exhibition was created as part of the Media Art and Technology Festival “UPDATE,” which annually offers a program for young artists and art students, especially those who have chosen digital technologies as their creative tool. Within the framework of “UPDATE: Blue Shift,” participants took part in workshops, masterclasses, boat trips at sea and on the lake, as well as a hike along the Liepāja beach to study the presence of microplastics in the coastal environment.
During the festival program, artists created works reflecting on the human role in water ecologies and the significance of water ecologies in the urban environment of Liepāja, combining observations, artistic research, and technological solutions.
Exhibition opening: Thursday, February 5, at 17:00.
The exhibition is open from February 5 to February 26, on weekdays from 12:00 to 19:00.
