From October 8 to November 21, it will be possible to see the exhibition “They and Conscience” at the Ojārs Vācietis Museum, the museum representatives informed. The exhibition dedicated to the 80th anniversary of Māris Čakls reveals the poet’s creative and biographical ties with Ojārs Vācietis.
“Like patched patches, wound sutures and written seams are texts with words of encouragement, active thought and balanced recommendation, jokes and true friendship, which can be read in the shirt of conscience exhibited in the center of the exhibition. It consists of texts and letters addressed to each other by the poets, revealing the strong creative and biographical ties that unite them both, ”the exhibition application states.
The leading motif of the exhibition is conscience. Both poets have also encoded this word in their lines of poetry: for Ojārs Vācietis it is read in the poem “Blow, winds!”: “It is the conscience of the people, and it will be so forever.” But Māris Čaklajs’ conscience is woven in the famous poem “A Song about Four White Shirts”: “That the song is not about shirts, but about consciences.”
From left: Imants Ziedonis, Vitauts Lūdēns, Ojārs Vācietis, Māris Čaklais, Jānis Peters.
Photo: Juris Krieviņš
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However, conscience is also a metaphor found in the works of both poets, the creators of the exhibition point out, explaining that “Ojārs Vācietis and Māris Čaklajs had to face difficulties in publishing, a ban on censorship, to preserve the ideals of Latvian culture and poetry, to protect and defend the Latvian language, to respect a person’s intellectual and spiritual freedom. ”
The museum also emphasizes that Māris Čakls’ poem “Song for Four White Shirts”, composed by Imants Kalniņš in Rolands Kalniņš’s film “Breathe Deeply”, in the language of art, is a monument to those who did not succumb to the pressures of Soviet ideology . ”
The exhibition uses documents and correspondence from the collection of Ojārs Vācietis Museum, photo portraits of Māris Čakls by Juris Krieviņš, video materials filmed by Gvido Skulte with the participation of Māris Čakls, objects from Inta Čakla’s archive.
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