A group exhibition "By a Whisker" at Exhibition Halls “Titanikas”, Vilnius Academy of Arts

2016 02 04 — 2016 02 28 at VAA Exhibition Halls 'Titanikas'
Author Echo Gone Wrong
Published in Events in Lithuania

12657977_1131325036877550_1559706881911275408_oA group exhibition ‘BY A WHISKER’ will open on 4 February, 6 p.m. at Exhibition Halls “Titanikas”, Vilnius Academy of Arts (Maironio g. 3, Vilnius), 2nd floor. A performance of gymnastics club ‘Skrydis’ will take place during the opening.

Participants of the exhibition:
ateate / Andrius Ivanovas / Beatričė Mockevičiūtė / Džiugas Šukys / Gabrielė Adomaitytė / Jonas Vaitiekūnas & Valentinas Filipovas / Kęstutis Montvidas / Ona Juciūtė / Rytis Urbanskas / Vykintas Šorys / Viktorija Damerell

The idea of the exhibition:
Viktorija Damerell and Ona Juciūtė – students of Vilnius Art Academy, Sculpture department.

The exhibition ‘BY A WHISKER’ presents a glimpse into matter‘s ‘inside-out’ – where a sense of what can best be described as unknown reality‘s endless strata appears. We find ourselves by a whisker from the moment to grasp them, but as soon as we make an effort to capture them, they electrify, lift up in the air and stick to our clothes.
The art pieces in the exhibition, in a variety of ways, explore the specific moments that attempt to expose those cracks or gaps in what we often dismiss as ‘the common’. These cracks allow us to perceive or experience reality with a different kind of intensity, and, at times, to face that which is invariably lost due to our conscious efforts at identifying and structuring. ‘The mind knows in part, in part and parcel, with full stop after every sentence but the emotional soul knows in full, like a river or flood.’ wrote the English novelist D. H. Lawrence. A description of the general aim of the participating artists can, perhaps, best be explained through a series of negations. The exhibitors are neither using media in order to communicate specific messages nor, on the other hand, to simply create attractive images. They are not attempting to express poetical metaphors. Furthermore, they do not claim that their artworks are in any way independent of the material world without a possibility for our mind to access them. Even though these artists appear to have a desire not to participate in acceptable forms of social or cultural discussion, they still use recognisable cultural coding, displayed through materials, images and sounds, but with an overriding need to generate experiences that avoid or disturb rationality.
Exhibition will be open 4 – 28 February