Jonynaitė Morta
Morta Jonynaitė (b. 1995 in Lithuania, where she currently lives and works). Exploring the environment through tactility, the artist tries to grasp different phenomena using traditional textile techniques. Hand weaving and knotting are archaic crafts with a clear grid, which she employs to weave stories that capture the present. Presenting her work in the form of installation, Jonynaitė constructs intimate spaces where relationships between different experiences and participants are interconnected.
In 2020, Jonynaitė graduated from Gerrit Rietveld Academie (NL), TxT (text, theory, textile) department. Recent exhibitions include Light Rain with Big Drops at Drifts gallery, Vilnius (2024, solo), Dryads of Cosquer at La Traverse, Marseille, France (2024), Breathing through the eyes at L’Atlas Gallery, Paris (2023); Innocence Becomes Sharks at InTheCloset Gallery, Vilnius (2023, solo); Hold Me Tender, at Tallinn Art Hall Lasnamäe Pavilion, Tallin (2023); Shuttle and Twill at Anastazija and Antanas Tamošaitis gallery Židinys, Vilnius (2023); JCDecaux Award 2022: Waves of Opportunity, Artists’ Association Gallery, Vilnius (2022); FITE – Le Festival International des Textiles Extraordinaires, Clermont-Ferrand, France (2022), Square Root at UMI gallery, Vilnius (2022, solo), Bias Cut at Marcinkonys Station Gallery, Marcinkonys, Lithuania (2021, solo).
MJ, 2023, image by Visvaldas Morkevičius
B + J, 2023, image by Visvaldas Morkevičius
Pink Street Boys, 2024, image by Martynas Norvaišas
Blissfully Unaware, 2024, image by Martynas Norvaišas
Departed, 2024, image by Martynas Norvaišas
Second Skin, 2022, image by Andrej Vasilenko
Chimera, 2024, image by Martynas Norvaišas