Anita Zabiļevska

Anita Zabiļevska belongs to the so-called conceptualist generation of the 1990s, which began to broadly employ postmodernist strategies. This art is characterised by alienation, conceptualist practices and appropriation, with the works also retaining their poetic foundation. The central interest of Anita Zabiļevska’s work is the relationship between virtual and real space and time. In her art, the material and the immaterial are in fluctuating exchange rather than a contrasting pair. The artist integrates the material into the sphere of ideas and fills the environment with emotional echoes, which make being in the space an adventure. 

 “Five Identical Landscapes” was displayed at the legendary 1994 exhibition  “Zoom factors”. Spaces are balanced and offered for comparison on five orange canvases and five video monitors. The window and the landscape visible beyond it slowly assume an orange tone, creating echoes on the adjacent canvas. Unlike cinema, the video picture leaves the screen and enters three-dimensional space. In this work, the artist studies the relationship between video art and painting, aligning the languages of painting, a traditional static medium, with moving, time-encapsulating video. 

Five Identical Landscapes. 1994.