Emilija Zakarauskaitė ^{Emerging artist}

Artist is based in: Lithuania

Emilija Zakarauskaitė (b. Vilnius) is a Lithuanian artist whose practice emerges from walking, observing, and collecting fragments of everyday urban life. A wanderer of Vilnius, she traces memories, movements, words, and fleeting details, seeking to translate the rhythms of the city into her work. Her practice often reflects on subtle encounters and overlooked moments, transforming them into poetic investigations of place and presence.

Zakarauskaitė’s recent research focuses on wind as both a physical and metaphorical force. Initially exploring DIY instruments, she developed objects that register wind as data and use it to transform sound in real time. Her project integrates mythological and cultural interpretations of wind with its atmospheric and scientific dimensions, considering it simultaneously as a medium of connection, creation, and destruction. In her latest work, she invited participants—people she associates with everyday joys—to use wind-measuring objects during an exhibition. The data collected altered sound frequencies in a modular synthesis program, creating a live sonic environment that unfolded throughout the gallery’s opening hours.

Through her writing and artistic experiments, Zakarauskaitė investigates wind as a relational medium, linking personal experience with collective narratives, and exploring how natural forces shape communication, sound, and human connection.