{"id":30115,"date":"2026-06-24T08:09:20","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T06:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/?p=30115"},"modified":"2026-06-24T08:09:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T06:09:20","slug":"dangerous-liaisons-by-skuja-braden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/dangerous-liaisons-by-skuja-braden\/","title":{"rendered":"Dangerous Liaisons by Skuja Braden"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nDangerous Liaisons by Skuja Braden. Photo by Gvido Kajons.<\/em><\/p>\n

Skuja Braden<\/a>\u00a0is the merged artistic identity of Ing\u016bna Skuja (Latvia) and Melissa Braden (California), active since 1999. Working primarily in porcelain, they fuse sculptural craft with painting, satire, and art-historical reference. Their works draw on the aesthetics of the decorative \u2014 ornament, sentiment, beauty \u2014 while turning those languages into tools for sharp contemporary storytelling centered on women\u2019s lives, desire, agency, and cultural pressure. The result is intimate, theatrical, and often darkly humorous: objects that seduce the viewer, then refuse comfort. In 2022, Skuja Braden represented Latvia at the 59th Venice Biennale with Selling Water by the River.<\/p>\n

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\nSkuja Braden: Artist Statement<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Skuja Braden\u00a0is the merged artistic identity of artist duo Ing\u016bna Skuja (Latvia) and Melissa Braden (California).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30116,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1573,16],"tags":[1756],"class_list":["post-30115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ceramic","category-lesbian-art","tag-skuja-braden"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t