Alnis Stakle is a photography-based artist from Daugavpils, Latvia. He holds PhD in art education from Daugavpils University. Besides being artist, he teaches photojournalism and creative photography at Daugavpils University and Riga Stradins University. Since 2011 year he works on a project “Not Even Something” that is a research on the interstices in the city environment.
Even though these interstices cover small territories, they are always intended for traversing rather than staying. No one wishes to linger there, because they are an intermediate between home and work, between one living space and another. These spaces are located between the meaningful and the meaningful, and themselves remain in the field of the insignificant and inessential. These are the places where we feel no desire to be in just like that, because with their aura of insignificance they not only make us feel as outsiders, but even “push” us away.
Alba Abiad is a half Spanish-half Syrian architect, graduated from ETSAB (Barcelona). She lived in India, Japan, China, Austria, Greece and Spain studying and working with renowned architects and artists such as Bijoy Jain, Kengo Kuma, Arata Isozaki, Riken Yamamoto, Ricardo Bofill. In a permanent state of movement, she works with natural materials that emerge from the ground and return back to the ground, like the human body.