Eglė Pilkauskaitė’s single artwork exhibition Soil Surface #2

– The idea of the work does relate to the location of the gallery. It is located in a little park in a rather busy area, marking a stretch of Čiurlionis street, leading to the city’s largest park, Vingis Park. The object displayed at the gallery becomes a kind of boundary marker between the industrial and recreational spaces of the city. The casting of a direct earth imprint in concrete creates a deliberately misleading allusion to the surface of the now fashionable organic material. The human relationship with the earth tends to remain consumerist, from the cultivation of exotic plants at home to large-scale building projects. Concrete has become the second most consumed material in the world after water. For this work I have chosen a form that can become a kind of pedestal for the contemporary search for a balance between man and nature.

– In your work, you often make use of objects found in various places to convey the beauty of decay. You have previously indicated that you are interested in questioning social norms of beauty and aesthetics. Why is it important for you to balance the line between beautiful and ugly in your work?

– I’m interested in why something is attractive to one person and not to another. The process that determines our aesthetic choices is extremely interesting. I try to look at aesthetics through a social perspective.