Tanzorgan I
Evelīna Deičmane
2022
Watercolour. Watercolour, paper. 50 x 65 cm.
With Dance Organ, the artist seemingly returns to her own past and looks at that of the others in order to pick up the missing elements and experience the freedom provided by a healthy interaction between the body and the mind, seen as instruments. In the context of Dance Organ, the meaning of survival expands far beyond merely avoiding what’s undesirable; it’s about expressing a life-affirming vision, despite the conditions that provoke all the possible varieties of fear. Deičmane’s Dance Organ moves about and “dances”, traversing self-experience, and opens up a way for healing transformations in the deepest essence of the survivor to take place.