From 30 July to 5 September, the gallery S_IN art space of the Lithuanian Artists’ Association in Šiauliai will host a solo exhibition of visual artist Ieva Saulīte, “Dust Bunnies. Creaturesque”.
The English expression dust bunnies refers to balls of dust that tend to accumulate in the corners of spaces, often in invisible, unnoticeable or hard-to-reach places. Magnified under a microscope, these formations reveal themselves as peculiar microcosms – fibres, hair, organic and inorganic substances tangled together to form random but visually fascinating images.
The exhibition Dust Bunnies. Creaturesque is a tribute to things as storytellers – forgotten, found and reinvented objects that hold the imprints of memory, presence and time. It invites us to look into places that we tend to ignore in our everyday lives – in the recesses of space, consciousness and experience – to see their potential to transform, to tell stories and to exist differently.
The central installation on display in the S_IN gallery space uses found and donated materials, brought together in an automatic and intuitive form-making process. As a result, the space is inhabited by abstract objects—creatures and forms that resemble dream images or remnants of memories. They represent a shift between the tangible and the abstract, the mundane and the symbolic.
About the artist:
Ieva Saulīte is a visual artist living and working in Latvia. She has an MA in Sculpture from the Art Academy of Latvia (2009) and studied at the University for the Creative Arts in Canterbury, UK.
Saulīte’s creative practice focuses on the relationship between people, environment and material. She explores the utopian and dystopian relationships of humanity, deconstructing everyday objects in both a literal and poetic sense in her work. Her interest in sustainability, material circulation and memory of place is intertwined with visually diverse means of expression – prints, drawings, paintings, textiles and installations.
Ieva regularly exhibits in Latvia and abroad, including the international printmaking festival Printmaking In, the Survival Kit 3 festival (2011) and the sculpture quadrennial Conservatism and Liberalism exhibition Being Good (2016), as well as regular solo exhibitions – Bundles of Persistent Thoughts (2024, TUR_telpa, Riga), Sanctuary ↔ Vault (2024, LAUKKU), Mutual Prime Numbers (2019), Journey of Life (2016), It Took Me a While to Realise That It Involved a Leopard (2014) and Eternal Love (2009).
In addition to her artistic work, Ieva Saulīte works as a teacher and hosts a radio programme about cultural processes, “Subjektīvie mērījumi (Subjective Measurements)” on Latvian Radio 6 – Radio NABA.
Coordinator of the exhibition: Vaiva Kovieraitė-Trumpė
