PDF 

Margarita Frančeska Loze (b. 1997, Latvia) is a recent graduate of MFA Fine Art from Kingston School of Art and is a co-founder of Conch Collective (2023). She has received a Global Talent Art Prize (2023) and has been nominated for The Muse Residency 2024. In year 2022 she was selected for the Venice Biennale Fellowship programme.

The work of Margarita is an exploration of the subtle beauty of life’s moments and a celebration of the poetics of the ordinary. Her recent work combines textile production with the use of found objects. By using a variety of mediums, such as hand-drawn stop motion, writing, embroidery and sculpture, she attempts to capture the transient nature of life and create a tangible connection to universal and personal memories. Through her experimental narrative approach, Margarita makes a dreamlike ontology, to capture the nuances of spatial, temporal and poetic navigation.

Loze seeks objects with defined functions, such as photo albums and frames, or peculiar objects with odd forms and holes. Although she directly works on these materials, adding new marks with threads, she retains details of their original shapes and imperfections. By blending these derelict objects’ ephemeral qualities with her memories and imagined worlds, she questions the function of the objects and the phenomenology of appearance.

By exploring myths from various cultures, phenomena such as déjà vu and atmospheric optics, she seeks to capture a sense of magic and the supernatural. The use of transparent paper drawings in her stop-motion animations further enhances the ethereal and surreal atmosphere of these experiences. 

 

forthcoming

Ukrainian Biennale of  Digital and Media Art (Location to be announced, October)

MADATAC XII, Madrid, Spain (October)

ROOD Takeover Dalston: Techno-body (Dalston Den, October 19)

Inside Jobs, Athens, Greece (PV November 11)

The Muse Residency 2024, Notting Hill, UK (January - July)

 

 

education

2023 MFA Fine Art, Kingston School of Art, London, UK

2021 BA (Hons) Fine Art: Painting, Wimbledon College of Arts, University of the Arts London, London, UK

2017 Riga School of Design and art: Form Textile design, Riga, Latvia

 

 

selected exhibitions & performances

2023 Open Call 2023, Mepaintsme, United States 

2023 The Muse Residency 2024 Competition Summer Group Show, The Muse Gallery, London, UK 

2023 Down The Garden Path, Safehouse 1, London, UK

2023 Metamorphosis, MFA Fine Art Degree show, Stanley Picker Gallery, London, UK

2023 Red in Tooth and Claw, FILET, London, UK 

2022 Reflections, Blanco Gallery, Islington Arts Factory, London, UK 

2021 Four Hands Meet / Concert Dessiné, hARTSlane gallery, London, UK (live drawing performance)

2020 Tanzlar Theatre, White Bear Theatre, London, UK (stage set)

 

 

selected screenings

2023 ExIS Experimental Film & Video Festival in Seoul, Seoul Art Space Mullae, Korea, Seoul

2023 Latvian Video Art ArchiveNOASS art centre, Riga, Latvia 

2023 Online: Fine Art Shorts 2023, Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston, UK

2021 MOVING HARTS, hARTSlane gallery, London, UK

2021 Natural Proximity, International Festival of Contemporary and Video Art 'WATERPIECES21', NOASS art centre, Riga, Latvia 

 

 

grants & awards

2023 The Muse Residency 2024

2023 Global Talent Art Prize 

2023 Project fund by Stanley Picker Trust

2022 Venice Fellowships Programme

2021 Moving image included in Video Art Archive of  Latvian artists & NOASS art centre Video Art Archive

2019 Prunella Clough Prize, shortlisted

 

 

press

2023 Global Talent Art Prize interview

2023 MFA Fine Art Degree Show'23 catalogue, Kingston School of Art

2023 Venice Fellowship Programme 2022 Yearbook

2023 Studio visit by Blanco Gallery

2021 Moving Harts Interview with Margarita Ieva Loze By Rachel Lonsdale

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2023 © Margarita Frančeska Ieva Loze