Magdalena Correa : Suiti

SUITI is a collection of photographs and videos taken by the artist in 2017 during her stay in Latvia and her time spent with the people of Latvia.
in 2017 during her stay and coexistence with the village that gives the project its the project's name. A form of Catholic culture, an intangible heritage of humanity, living in isolation in a territory with a Lutheran majority.
Continuing in the line of her previous works, the artist integrates herself into the communal nucleus of the inhabitants of this culture, and by means of a biased gaze manages to construct a suggestive narrative of an aesthetic nature, often incomplete or interrupted, which seeks to move away from the document and invites the viewer to add their own disquisitions on the images that he contemplates.

The life of the Suiti revolves around strict customs and rituals that keep their culture alive. Religious rites and folklore have a strong presence in daily life; without these rules, the small, closed community would fall into oblivion and be slowly absorbed by the rest of the country.

This project was presented at CEAC in Madrid, Curated by Emilio Navarro