Ieva Viese is an interdisciplinary artist and poet whose creative practice encompasses sculptural objects, photographic and audiovisual art, poetry and research. In her work, she explores relationships between the physical and the symbolic, as well as between word, image, and body. She graduated from the Latvian Academy of Culture (Audiovisual Culture; Cultural Theory) and the Art Academy of Latvia (Movement. Image. Sound; POST). She works at the Riga School of Art and Media, gives guest lectures, and is part of the core team of the artist-run DOM gallery.