Exhibition 'The Language of Flowers and Silent Things' by Louis-Cyprien Rials at the Meno Parkas Gallery

Meno parkas Gallery is pleased to invite you to the opening of the solo exhibition “The Language of Flowers and Silent Things” by the renowned French artist Louis-Cyprien Rials, which will take place on 23rd of May at 6 pm. 

The Middle East, non-internationally recognized countries, radioactive or forbidden zones considered as “involuntary nature parks” are all territories that Louis-Cyprien Rials has travelled through or inhabited. The artist, born in Paris in 1981, uses video, photography and sculptural installations to present a silent, sometimes mystical image of these areas marked by past violence or shaken by major conflicts.

Life and death are bound together, like old companions who walk side by side. One cannot exist without the other. A man’s life is nothing more than the coming together of breath—fragile, fleeting. When that breath is gathered, there is life; when it scatters, there is death. But if these two are such close companions, inseparable as they are, then what cause have we to be anxious? Louis-Cyprien works points towards finality, the end of a phase of our history. And yet, the work remains vital. 

The Language of Flowers and Silent Things is a meditation on the fragility and resilience of life. Rials engages with materials and motifs to explore how life endures, adapts, and transforms even in the face of adversity, he presents beauty as a recognition of life’s fleeting nature. In this recognition, there is both sorrow and peace. 

Project financed by: Lithuanian Council for Culture