Photo reportage from the exhibition ‘Omen’ by Agnė Juodvalkytė at Drifts gallery

May 15, 2023
Author Echo Gone Wrong

Published in Photo / Video from Lithuania

Agnė Juodvalkytė, Omen, 2023, exhibition view, Drifts gallery, Vilnius

Agnė Juodvalkytė’s solo exhibition Omen presents the artist’s works of textile and abstract painting.

For a little while, a special timescape created by Agnė Juodvalkytė lends its order to the space of the gallery Drifts. The signs and gestures that appear between doors, thresholds, passages and niches claim ownership of the space, emphasising its multidimensionality.

Juodvalkytė’s atmospheric paintings come from the observation of nature, time and light, the windows of her everyday life and trips around the city. The abstract canvases, created in the artist’s studio in Berlin, depict intuitive, unhasty time.

The title of the exhibition, Omen, is also an artwork by Juodvalkytė, prioritising sound over the meaning of the word. A sign, a prophet, a superstition—all these meanings merge into a message carried through the form and sound of the word Omen which envelops the whole of the exhibition.

A book recently published by the artist, the catalogue Anska, accompanies the show. In fact, the book is where the exhibition began. As the light travels through its pages, a conversation between different generations continues.

Exhibition curator Monika Lipšic
Translation and Proofreading Alexandra Bondarev
Graphic Designer Marijn Degenaar
Exhibition supported by Lithuanian Council for Culture and Vilnius City Municipality

Photography: Philippe Gerlach