Agate Tūna

Agate Tūna is a multidisciplinary artist based in Riga, Latvia. Her artistic background is in painting, but currently her main choice of medium is analogue and experimental photography (filmsoups, chemigrams, photogram) and sound art. By combining documentary and fictional elements in her photography, installation and oral history works, she investigates the role of images in shaping our beliefs. Tūna’s work explores the evolutionof technology and spirituality. In 2020 she received a BA in Arts from the Painting Department at the Art Academy of Latvia and in 2022 graduated from the two-year programme Developing Photo Language at ISSP (2020–2022, Latvia). Currently, she continues her studies in POST, an interdisciplinary MA programme at the Art Academy of Latvia (2021–2023).