Margarita Frančeska Loze

The work of Margarita Frančeska Loze (b. 1997, Latvia) 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 creates 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 own 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.