Exhibition 'travels and wanders' by Emilija Zakarauskaitė at the VAA gallery Artifex

2025 01 21 — 2025 02 07 at Artifex
Author Echo Gone Wrong
Published in Events in Lithuania

travelling and wandering are ways to get inspired, create and learn about your surroundings and the world. through them, i discover the everyday details, souvenirs, memories of the Vilnius  live in and the other cities i visit, catching the wind and the joys. i explore Vilnius on foot, on trolleybuses and buses. i leave the city by train, by car, and i try to reflect all these experiences in the exhibition. the wind has been with me since i was a child – i was born by the sea, so i tame it in other places too. wandering and wind are connected by the English etymology of these two words.  the word “wander” comes from “wendh”, meaning to turn, to wind. wind has two meanings in English, one for a turn and the other for the movement of air masses. in the exhibition, these two meanings are intertwined. sometimes i travel with the wind, changing directions, exploring the differences between forecasts and actual experience. travelling and wandering is like an implied, invisible, yet felt inspiration for the creative process. i invite you to look at each installation in the three different rooms of the exhibition as separate mediums, segments that tell the story of a different journey.

about the author – Emilija Zakarauskaitė:

a wanderer of Vilnius city, conspecting memories, moments, words, objects and other little bits and pieces, documenting and observing its streets and movements as she walks. trying to catch the wind as she strolls through the city’s vascularity. her hands are often restless, constructing something original or experimental. having started her artistic journey in 2021 at the graphic arts department of the Vilnius Academy of Arts, she is now exploring the paths of photography and media art studies.

thanks to: Milda Paukštė, Rūta Grumadaitė, Viktorija Balkutė, Milda Trimakaitė, Lukrecija Jurėnaitė, Titas Antanas Vilkaitis, Vilius Juozapas Vingras, Jelena Škulis, Justina Gražytė, Aivaras Širvinskas, Juozapas Zdaniauskis, Mindaugas Janušaitis, Dija Vaičikauskaitė, Giedrius Satkūnas, Justinas Daraška, Vitalis Červiakovas, Artūras Raila, Rūta Spelskytė, Žilvinas Lilas, Daniel Kravčiuk, Deimantė Važinskytė, Rugilė Beržonskytė, VAA Photography, animation and media art department, VAA design laboratory, VAA textile laboratory, VAA graphics department, and to all who contributed.