Māris Čačka born in 1976 in Varakļāni (Latvia). He received the Master of Arts degree (2011) and Doctor of Arts Education degree (2009) at Daugavpils University. Head of the Association of Art Educators in Daugavpils. Member of the “Grafikas kamera” (Chamber of Graphic Art). His works have been exhibited since 1997 in Latvia, Belarus, Lithuania, Italy, Sweden, Germany, Ukraine and Poland. He organized more than ten solo exhibitions, among them the “Undefined, Defined and Told” in Daugavpils, Rēzekne, Valka, Panevezys (Lithuania) and Hamburg Pashmin Art Gallery in 2016-2017. The solo exhibition “Definite And Indefinite Dialogues” at the Art Station Dubulti curated by Inga Šteimane in 2018. The solo exhibition “Dialogues. Parallels. Dimensions” at the National Contemporary art centre in Belarus (Minsk) and Madona Museum of Local History and Art in 2019-2020.

Residency project:

“During the residency at L’Esparrou, my first concern will be getting to know the local community and immersing myself in its way of life. While meeting new people and making new connections, I also want to experience the extraordinary light of the French Riviera, which has captivated creators through the ages and which I seek to capture in my original technique, where I blend painting and printmaking to give voice to unique human stories. In my distinct artistic hand, I want to recreate the light and colour of this exceptional region in acrylic compositions, achieved by balancing the counterforces of chromatic layering and stripping on a canvas plane. I will make the resulting body of work – my visual journal of the South of France – publicly available in an exhibition.”