The images I perceive, saturated with murmurs, take on form through a kind of a lineup. Neat rows of paintings ripple across white walls, much like the core of a mechanical pencil dragging a line along the edge of a ruler on white canvas or paper. Relying on precise tools and pre-defined measurements, I can structure complex, seemingly ungraspable images and to comprehend my surroundings. In the studio, I work slowly and attentively, allowing the image to be experienced not instantly, not at a glance, but gradually and calmly – inviting reflection on its relationships, its light, its rhythm.
Manifestations of order emerge through placement, arrangement, sequence, and row – through the sense of things being ‘just right.’ A multitude of noisy impressions from art practices gathered into one booklet; countless road motifs predictably leading from one point to another; clusters of wooden houses, woodgrain ripples layering upon each other; long straight and taut lines in flowing water, in the rows of chairs and clothes that echo canvas weaving and become the essential image. I trace them all through a continuous visual basso continuo (a digital bass resonating steadily beneath a multitude of instrumental voices).
The motifs of reshaped and reimagined nature of orchestrated movement leave behind certain traces – a coded pattern of recurring order and logic – a lineup I discover through close observation, step by step, methodically, almost like a detective: remembering, searching for meaning, unearthing new resonances. As if carefully brushing off the dust left by chaos, as if removing bothering dirt and visual noises with tweezers – I bring the structure into the light (Aurelija Zaburaitė).
Aurelija Zaburaitė
The Lineup
3–8 June 2025
Pamėnkalnio Gallery (1 Pamėnkalnio St., Vilnius)
Organiser: Pamėnkalnio Gallery.
Partner: Vilnius Academy of Arts.
The project is financed by Lithuanian Council for Culture, Vilnius City Municipality, Lithuanian Artists’ Association.
The exhibition is part of the graduation exhibition series, ‘Graduation Show,’ in collaboration with Vilnius Academy of Arts.
