Indrė Svirplytė | The Secret Garden Of Life | 02/12-09/01 2026
On the 2nd of December at 6 PM, the exhibition The Secret Garden of Life by Indrė Svirplytė will open at the VAA gallery ARTIFEX (Gaono St. 1, Vilnius)
In The Secret Garden of Life, the artist constructs immersive mythological realms where surreal, symbolic figures drift through luminous, dreamlike landscapes. Drawing from religious iconography, imagined paradises, final-judgment visions, and fragments of personal dreams, the work meditates on mortality, belief, and ongoing transformation.
At the center of this world stands a monumental Tree of Life, built through the slow, contemplative rhythm of punch-needle embroidery. Around it, radiant fruits and serpentine forms emerge as emblems of growth, healing, and cyclical renewal. Through these tactile, hand-crafted elements, the exhibition traces the secret interwoven worlds that connect all living things, revealing a sacred pulse of life in every loop, knot, and strand of thread.
While questioning established notions of spirituality, the artist turns to the sun as a metaphorical deity—visible, sustaining, and constant—becoming the emotional core of a universe where grotesque dream figures inhabit a threshold between heaven and hell. Through symbolic imagery, the work invites viewers into a quiet sanctuary where myth, memory, and materiality converge, offering space to contemplate renewal, transformation, and the enduring mysteries of existence.
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Indrė Svirplytė (Lithuania, b. 1992) is an interdisciplinary artist and illustrator. She earned a BA degree in Graphic Design at the Vilnius Academy of Arts. Later she studied at LUCA School of Arts in Ghent, Belgium, where she earned a BA in Illustration and an MA in Visual Arts. Her practice includes installation art, often pushing beyond conventional formats and media. She has completed an artist residency at the Textile Museum in Tilburg, the Netherlands. Her work has been shown in international exhibitions in Brussels (Belgium), Paris (France), Tilburg (the Netherlands), and Cape Town (South Africa). This exhibition is the artist’s first solo show in Vilnius. In recent years, Indrė has focused primarily on textile works that embody fantastical, sarcastic, slightly unsettling, and grotesque imagery. The artist currently lives and works in Belgium.
Opening | 02/12/2025 6PM at the Vilnius Academy Of Arts galerry ARTIFEX (Gaono str.1, Vilnius, Lithuania)
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