Agnė Jonkutė | The Land of Memory

From 10 th of May at gallery “Arka” will open the exhibition by Agnė Jonkutė “The Land of Memory”, which is composed of two complementary cycles that deal with the themes of the land, the change of time and memory.

On Thursday, 16 May at 6 pm we invite you to the presentation of the exhibition and a meeting with the artist.

Memory in Jonkutė’s works is understood as a search for an unknown place, for identity, for the self. The artist develops this theme by drawing on her grandparents’ stories of forced wandering and displacement, when her relatives were forcibly transported to Siberia, where her mother was born. The artist’s grandfather remained there, and she is still haunted by the unknown – what does that land look like, as told by relatives? It is like the promise of a place you have not been, of experiencing a time you have not lived in: this is what the artist is looking for in a waking landscape, where the image is seen as if through peripheral vision, as if it keeps slipping out of view and remaining somewhere in the past, or appears to be absent altogether, only imaginary.

The exhibition is a part of the creative programme of the Lithuanian Artists’ Association and Arka Gallery. The organisation’s strategic activities are funded by the Lithuanian Council for Culture.