Photography: Airida Rekštytė
NET FREEDOM ART SHOW
curator: Jorge Cortell-Albert
In collaboration with the Internet Freedom Festival held in Valencia (Spain) from 2 to 6 March, the Net Freedom Art Show is a multidisciplinary collective international exhibition of contemporary art. After its debut in Spain, it arrives in Lithuania November 4 – December 2, and then it will travel to galleries in New York, London, and Santiago de Chile.
The independent activist curator and London resident Jorge Cortell-Albert, advisor to the Saint Charles Royal Academy of Fine Arts, and visiting professor at the Italian Libera Accademia Belle Arti, has collected works by Carlos Motta (Colombia), Pawel Althamer (Poland), Osamu Tezuka (Japan), Dave Cicirelli (USA), Patricija Gilyte (Lithuania), Claudio Zirotti (Italy), Mery (Spain), and Paulina Vassileva (Bulgary).
Most of the works come from private collections, acquired in museums like the Guggenheim and the New Museum in New York. Others have been donated by the artists, having been exhibited in places like the Tate Modern in London, MoMA in New York, or Art Basel.
“With this provocative, irreverent, and atypical exhibition I intend to provoke reflection on some of the focal points of the struggle for freedom on the Internet, such as Community, Gender, Diversity, Media, Technology, Best Practices, Design and Politics.” Comments Jorge Cortell-Albert “in this sense all works integrate multiple messages. Even the heterogeneous group of selected artists represents the diverse nature of the Internet.”
Photography: Airida Rekštytė
HEARTS
Alma Veiverytė
When I was younger, I would often look at the city lights, and they would always look like a promise, that somewhere there is a life that is waiting for me.
While listening to songs about love I would understand that what it is put inside, we have all felt at one point or we just will. Sometimes I memorize lyrics, a part of dialogue which would remain inside of my mind for quite a period. It seems insignificant but it always comes up.
My heart is controlling me, what I feel or I do not, it changes my behaviour, what I can do, create and sense.
“Life cannot be in your way if you do not listen to your heart. You cannot create yourself, you have to obey your fate”. That is what I have been told by my grandfather. As ironically as it sounds, the frames in which we live in should tear apart and the new era should start, but that is a choice of our hearts(?).
In 2014, Lana del Rey released a hit “West Coast”, as romantic as all of her songs. There is a line in that song which says: “Down on the west coast I get this feeling like it all could happen”. It is like a metaphor of a place which does not exist, but is inside of us. Or a moment when we start believing in ourselves and something happens to this world, that changes us; life gets a meaning for those moments.
In winter of that year, I was painting a cycle of hearts, after which they were standing in the studio for a long time while I decorated them with spray paint. I think some of my works got a little bit alike “graffiti”, others stayed a bit more subtle.
Alma Veiverytė
Photography: Airida Rekštytė
Exhibitions will be opened till 2 December.
