Gabija Pritkovaitė: “In my painting, I am seeking a place where there is no longer any memory, no context or experience, only the ever-lasting present. Echoes resound in abandoned painting spaces, images without context, experiences without memory. Abandoned are interiors where grass grows on the walls. Abandoned is the reflection of a mirror that cannot find the photographer’s image. Abandoned is the longing that no longer recognises its home.
I see painting as a temporal experience in which we are compelled to initiate the beginning and the end. The viewer is also invited to get lost in these spaces, to throw away the keys to the familiar doors of their own homes and to peer inside through the eyes of an intruder. This loss helps to recognise oneself anew, to fill the spaces with a silent murmur, an echo which, I believe, will help to break out of the spiralling repetition of images.
To keep walking through the blue-painted orangeries, to gaze into the light of the rustling leaves of the trees. To walk and perhaps to never arrive at anything. To recognise nothing. To get nothing back. Hear nothing. Only to see.”
Adonta ta melê is part of the Graduation Show series in collaboration with Vilnius Academy of Arts.
Gabija Pritkovaitė
ADONTA TA MELÊ
12 June – 3 July 2024
Pamėnkalnio Gallery (1 Pamėnkalnio St., Vilnius)
Opening reception: 12 June, Wed, 7 pm
Attendance is free of charge
Organiser: Pamėnkalnio Gallery.
Sponsors: Lithuanian Council for Culture, Vilnius City, Lithuanian Artists’ Association.
Partner: Vilnius Academy of Arts.
