Asta Ostrovskaja’s “Dropped Pin” painting exhibition

On 11th of April, at 7 PM, the exhibition “Dropped Pin” by interdisciplinary artist Asta Ostrovskaja will be opened at the independent project space “8 Akys ir ausys”.

“Dropped Pin” is an exhibition presenting an ongoing painting project that began at the beginning of the Coronavirus pandemic. In this project, the artist captures the view through the virtual Google Street View car window and adds a surreal narrative to it in the paintings.

In 2020, when the window of the rental car turned into a browser window, the artist began to observe the changing panoramas on the virtual road trip searching for landscapes that combine mundane and unexpected elements. To emphasize this feeling, the artist adds a visual layer that does not exist in reality to each glimpse captured in the virtual journey. Everyday panoramas are transformed into paintings with a cinematic atmosphere, incorporating elements such as neon lights, dusk, non-existent poetic billboards, abandoned household objects or distant characters. This project aims to transform ordinary and mundane elements into extraordinary and picturesque experiences through the use of painting practice and to evoke excitement for everyday life for the audience.

Asta Ostrovskaja is a Multidisciplinary Visual Artist and an Art Director. Her background in Visual Art, Art Direction and Graphic Design led her to be interested in abstract documentation of contemporary life. The experience she gained working in different visual fields is reflected in the discourse of her work. The field of interests which the artist explores could be named as a junction between real and surreal; abstract and concrete; humor and sadness; nostalgia and futurism; tangibility and stiffness; 2D and 3D.