The exhibition curated by Anna Volkova and Vladimir Svetlov is centered around the experimental art practice of the photographer Jānis Gleizds (1924 - 2010) in the latter half of the 1900s and based on 40 years of collaboration between the artist and the specialists at the Traumatology and Orthopaedics Research Institute. In a time when the official art milieu catered to the ideological demands of the Soviet regime, 'untrained' artists - photographers and physicians - developed new aesthetic canons within which a world of erotic fantasies and genuine emotional experience was born, a world that, it emerged, filled void for the viewers.
For the 1960s and 1970s society that habitually excluded people with disabilities, forcing them out of the visibility zone, the story of a young Latgalian man who came to Riga to get fitted for prosthetics, stayed and went on to became famous was an exception. The mysterious star of the Riga Photography Club, who had lost both hands in his youth, was the resident photographer for the Traumatology and Orthopaedics Research Institute. His art photographs won awards at international cempetitions and stood out among others due to its distinctive synthesis of the trademark aesthetics of the Photography Club and an original method inspired by the experimental spirit of the research institute.