From December 1 to 31, 2022, in the gallery on the 1st floor of the Riga Culture and Recreation Center "Imanta" - an exhibition of Jette Užāne's gloves "Letters written in gloves".
In the 1980s and 1990s, the wider public was introduced to Jette Užane, a unique talent and continuator of folk art traditions. Although she got the title of Master of Traditional Crafts in the distant sixties, she announced herself as an artist in 1980, when she first dared to show her friends her first glove cycle "Seasons". It was daring, because for the first time gloves were knitted not for wearing, but for viewing.
Jette Užane lost the ability to walk after contracting bone tuberculosis as a child and spent her whole life in a wheelchair. Although her feet could do nothing, her hands created miraculous glove stories, but her heart made the world warmer and brighter. Jette used to say, "I couldn't go on in the song, nor in a child." But she could knit. Jette Užāne's rich dowry of gloves is stored and raised in the sun by Elīna Apsīte.
In the exhibition "Letters written in gloves" several dozens of Jette Užane's glove cycles will be on display. As, for example, "Seasons" (1980), "White Gloves" or "Folk Song Cycle" (1981/82), A. Pumpurs "Lāčplēsis" (1988), "Going to Europe ” (1996) and many others.
There are many people in Latvia who have visited Cimdu Jettiņa (that's what she used to call herself). Many people know her from afar, but you will also meet those whom Jettiņa has given strength to live.
Free entrance
The exhibition is open to visitors every day from 10.00 to 20.00
This is one of the Riga Municipality's Christmas activities. You will be able to familiarize yourself with all festive events in Riga very soon on the website https://svetki.riga.lv/, as well as follow the municipal social network page "Rīgā Notiek".