On the occasion of the Latvian Presidency of the Council of the European Union in 2015, Arielle d'Hauterives is devoting an exhibition, entitled Baltic Way, to two Latvian artists: Baiba Osïte and Inese Marg? Vi? A. Textile artist Baiba Osïte first appeared on the Latvian art scene in the 1980s. A graduate of the Textile Art Department of the Latvian Academy of Fine Arts, she develops artistic work inspired by traditional ethnographic motifs. His work then evolves into a more daring artistic expression. The influence of different cultures is reflected in his textile works. For the artist, art is a means of introspection and manifestation. As a textile artist, she is interested in both the design, the execution and the choice of material. In order to express emotions and ideas, the choice of raw material is essential. The variety of these allows him to express his personal ideas and also to introduce new trends in Latvian textile art. The artist includes, for example, metal fibers in his tapestries. She explores and dissects patterns observed in her environment and reassembles them to recreate the world with textile materials. Nature, embodied by the use of natural wood, is omnipresent in his work, which reinforces the expressiveness of his works. Baiba's creative work opens up new possibilities in textile art which is no longer limited only to traditional techniques and materials. Inese Marg? Vi? Has worked with different materials such as clay and porcelain. She appreciates porcelain for its white color, its lightness and its fragility. She likes to cover it with ornamental and symbolic patterns in a tinted glaze using all shades of gray. For her porcelain pieces, she mainly represents women, with dreamy or attentive attitudes, with enigmatic faces, similar and always different, a sort of mask that would hide an intense interior life. A graduate of the Riga Academy of Arts, she exhibits regularly in her country. She has participated in individual or group exhibitions, in Paris, in Germany, Spain, Ukraine, Egypt, Argentina ... Her works are also present in private collections, notably in the United States. She participated in several international symposia in Latvia, Lithuania, Germany, Turkey.