Agnė Šemberaitė | The Spell of Fear

3rd of May, Friday, at 6 PM an adaptation of Agnė Šemberaitė’s exhibition “The Spell of Fear”, exhibited at the Rothko Museum in Daugavpils, will open at the gallery Arka.

The sculptural ceramic art installation welcomes hybrid characters with zoomorphic bodies, using their charred or shimmering surfaces as if they were figurative spells, and guiding them into a mythological, fairy-tale, liminal world. By creating surreal, dreamlike and visually fragile figures, the artist awakens the viewer’s imagination, evoking an over-the-top experience, activating the senses for the unexpected. The insect-like “centaurs” grow alien limbs, bird skulls, stare at us with a cold gaze, dive not only out of their shells, but also out of the plants and human organs that become their occupied media, and disappear into the twilight, teeming with life.

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

Photography and filming may take place during the event. By participating in the event, you agree that your image may be published on the Gallery’s distribution channels for the purposes of publicising the exhibition.