Deva Bartninkaitė | Image Tape

On Monday, June 1 at 6 pm, we invite you to the opening of Deva Bartninkaitė’s exhibition “Image Tape” at the Jonas Mekas Visual Arts Center.

What might a synergy between VHS (Video Home System) and textile weaving technologies look like? Weaving is one of the oldest technologies created by humankind and remains functionally relevant to this day. Meanwhile, VHS, in the long history of technological evolution, flashed past us like a comet — briefly shining brightly, captivating audiences, igniting imagination, and then quickly disappearing from active use, remaining for many only as a sentimental memory. The Lithuanian word vaizdajuostė (“videotape”) was chosen intentionally as the title of Deva Bartninkaitė’s MA graduation project, serving as a key to unlock the synergy between these technologies.

Deva Bartninkaitė’s artistic practice is consistently developed through weaving technologies employing VHS magnetic tape. Although the information stored on the tapes is no longer accessible, it is transformed into another artistic medium.

The exhibition presents an artistic project developed during the MA studies at the Textile Art and Design Department of the Vilnius Academy of Arts.

Supervisors of the artistic project: Assoc. Prof. Laura Pavilonytė-Ežerskienė and Assoc. Prof. Danutė Jonkaitytė

Supervisor of the theoretical research paper: Assoc. Prof. Jurijus Dobriakovas, PhD

The exhibition is part of the Vilnius Academy of Arts graduation show. The exhibition will run until June 27.