\u201eSolanum tuberosum*\u201c
\n*potato<\/p>\n
Aist\u0117 Kisarauskait\u0117<\/p>\n
Interdisciplinarity manifests itself by different symbioses. In her work, artist Aist\u0117 Kisarauskait\u0117 combines classical artistic disciplines with her interest in plants. It wouldn\u2019t be an error to call Aist\u0117 a botanist, though in the plant world she seeks to find answers to the quesions raised by contemporary art in particular. One could remember her past projects: a photographic series on the city\u2019s blooming apple trees, which researched the relationship between urban sprawl and vegetation as coded memory; a collection of plants, black in colour, which seeked to establish a connection between photosynthesis and aesthetics; the meticulous large format meadow fragments, drawn in an actual scale. The artist\u2019s own home is full of seedlings, some of which end up at the countryside in Dz\u016bkija while others become works of art.
\nFor a long time, traditions of working the land have founded our way of living. Recently, as life now happens in the city, this memory has become a certain source of longing. \u2018Sod\u0173 4\u2019, a gallery situated near the farmers\u2019 market in the most dense part of the capital city, will host Kisarauskait\u0117\u2019s large format watercolors depicting potato haulm and other fragments of our soil. The chosen size and scale link her works with a particular meditativeness, found in the process of cultivating the land. The creator, drowning in her urban existence, lays a sheet of paper, which covers half of a room in an apartment building, and turns it into a land fragment. This way she compensates for the yearning to be in real nature, and for a sense of calm that could provide.
\nThe second group of exhibits is made up of old farming utensils, that have lost their practicality or have else become relics of the technological development, \u2013 the artist has noticed and revivified them for a second life by fully or partially spray-painting them. In general, one of Aist\u0117 Kisarauskait\u0117\u2019s main goals in this exhibition is to cover her chosen surfaces properly, either painting watercolor within the broad area on a large sheet of paper or using spray-paint to coat the antique utensils. It\u2019s not the first time that such coating process becomes the artist\u2019s main concept. In this exhibition, a perfect layer of nacre signifies success. Isn\u2019t that how Ferraris are made \u2013 red meaning its entirety itself? Aesthetics becomes a symbol of what\u2019s inside. The pearly utensils are like hyperbolised decorations that shove us our agrarian identity.<\/p>\n
Curator of the exhibition Danas Aleksa<\/p>\n
Artist, art critic and curator Aist\u0117 Kisarauskait\u0117 graduated from Vilnius Academy of Arts in 1992, and has been actively participating in the contemporary art field ever since. From 2003, her essays and short stories have been widely published in the cultural press.
\nKisarauskait\u0117 was an active performance artist in the nineties. Her performances \u2013 seemingly built on a \u2018soft\u2019 framework, such as \u2018fairy tales\u2019, \u2018little mice\u2019, negligible \u2018minutia\u2019 \u2013 often gained a certain drastic guise in an uncommitted way, for example, by introducing self-harm on a basis of a \u2018fairy tale\u2019, etc. It could be said that the both soft and drastic tactics of Kisarauskait\u0117\u2019s performances are some of the first cases of the feminist aesthetics in lithuanian performance art.<\/p>\n
Find out more: Organised by LIAA Project space \u2018Sod\u0173 4\u2019 Opening reception 2018\/11\/26, 7 pm
\nhttp:\/\/letmefix.lt\/Aist\u0117_Kisarauskait\u0117<\/a><\/p>\n
\nSponsored by Lithuanian Council for Culture<\/p>\n
\nSod\u0173 str. 4, Vilnius
\nwww.letmekoo.lt\/sodu-4<\/a><\/p>\n
\nExhibition open 2018\/11\/27 \u2013 12\/09
\nWednesday to Sunday 3\u20137 pm
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