Māra Viška
Māra Viška is a Latvian artist and designer working across painting, installation, and visual storytelling. Her artistic practice explores memory, urban environments, emotional landscapes, and the relationship between personal experience and collective cultural identity.
In her recent work, she focuses on childhood memories connected to 1990s city life, transforming everyday details into poetic and visually layered narratives. Through painting and installation, she creates immersive atmospheres that combine nostalgia with reflections on contemporary life, investigating how visual memories shape identity and emotional perception over time.
Alongside her artistic practice, she is actively involved in cultural and educational projects that support emerging artists and interdisciplinary collaboration.
White Movement, 2025
Acrylic on canvas
80 × 120 cm
Painting
This painting explores memories of the Baltic Sea experienced during childhood. It reflects the emotional impact of standing by the shoreline and gazing into the endless horizon, where sea and sky merge into a single expanse.
The work captures the inner movement of a child’s spirit — a feeling of excitement, restlessness, and curiosity, together with the desire to venture beyond the known and discover what lies beyond the visible world. The vastness of the sea becomes a symbol of freedom, longing, and limitless possibility.
With time, these powerful childhood sensations have transformed into a bittersweet memory. White Movement reflects how intense emotions gradually soften and become traces of experience, preserved in memory like the lingering sound of waves or the fleeting shimmer of light on water. It is a meditation on the passage of time, nostalgia, and the enduring presence of the sea within personal memory.