From 19 November to 9 December 2022, 5 Malūnai Gallery will host the exhibition "SHAPING THE UNKNOWN" by Marijonas Verbel and Bora Bredár.
I. Mapping the surroundings
In a new environment without mapped out actions, one has no choice but to rely on their senses. Sand grains in between your fingers whisper centuries old stories. Breathe in, breathe out. Listen to their stories and knowledge. Salty gusts of wind fill your lungs and create a tornado out of hair. Breathe in, breathe out. Easily recognisable forms of trees, sand dunes, valleys fade out and become silhouette-like, resembling nothing and everything all at once. Schematic way of thinking and seeing loses all meaning. You become one with nature, feel like a part of it, loneliness fades out. All that’s left is comfort and warmth, you spin around in circles like a fallen leaf, letting the wind take control, you fly into the unknown, only not feeling any fright or sadness…
II. Capturing (un)certainty, repetition and chaos
It is all disorder and chaos around. Many small works that wait to be done, confusing formulas, repetition of words and phrases that no longer mean anything, various images stuck in your memory… Maybe all these things can still lead to something important? But it is hard to believe that. At least from the first glance. After stopping for a while and starting to trace almost invisible clues and symbols of chaos and its elements, some kind of schemes are starting to appear. They can help you to decipher what is happening around us, that you usually wouldn’t notice. You can calm down, since in the unknown you are finding the forms that are trying to say something to you.
Exhibition “Shaping the Unknown” presents two artists – Marijonas Verbel, who works with textiles, and painter Bora Bredár. Even though mediums and means of expression vary, they both come together in their interest in constructing landscapes. Both artists take different approaches to the topic of visual landscaping. Marijonas looks back into the inner world's visual representation and the operating powers there, and creates linear maps. Bora focuses on the everchanging surroundings and is keen on finding the relationship with the seen and the unseen world, the land, the Earth, others and herself.
Marija Martinaitytė, Monika Pakerytė
Marijonas Verbel (b. 2002) studies textile art and design in Vilnius Academy of Arts. In their drawings and textiles they analyze invisible forces and processes impacting our everyday routine. Textile works take a look back to traditional weaving techniques, drawings and weaving works tend to be inspired by schemes, chaos and sewing patterns from magazines.
Bora Bredár (b. 1998) studies in Hungarian University of Fine Arts, at the moment she is in Vilnius Academy of Arts with the Erasmus programme continuing her studies of painting. She explores nature and landscape as a space where new relationships are born and formed between people, plants and even rocks… Universal symbols transform into forms and shapes that look like nothing else or look like many things at the same time.
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