Virtual initiative | Exhibition | from 24/11/2020

#MONOTONY


During quarantine, for many of us, empty city streets looks gloomy, uncomfortable, and intimidating, but for creators, it is a completely natural state that not only does not oppress, but even allows to immerse themselves in creativity.
Many of them would confirm that they spend most of their life in a kind of "quarantine", because good ideas and good creations are born precisely when artists are separated from the surrounding world and closed in their workshops. So, this pause is just a luxurious opportunity to be with themselves, with their thoughts, and to highlight all the essentials.
The idea for this virtual initiative came to the VAA gallery Artifex during the first quarantine, in the spring, when due to the Global Pandemic, for the first time, everything had to stop and we had to close our doors to visitors unexpectedly.
We invited our colleagues, artists to open the doors of their workshops and, as if through a keyhole, let us look at that, different "quarantine". The authors analyzed / researched / thought about creative monotony, monotonous quarantine, about non-boring boredom, about the everyday life of a textile artist (or perhaps an artist in general), technology that requires time and patience in various senses - conceptually, historically, through sound, through form, through technique, etc. 
Wishing you creative inspiration, we invite you to a virtual exhibition, where we present videos sent by artists not only from Lithuania, but also from abroad.
Also, we invite everyone who wants (not necessarily textile artists) to contribute to the initiative and supplement this exhibition with even different perspective, email us your short videos via artifex@vda.lt.

Exhibition curators Justina Gražytė and Indrė Kupstienė

 

Virtual exhibition 

#MONOTONY №1 Aistė Jančiūtė 
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#MONOTONY №2 Dovilė Stasiulytė
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#MONOTONY №3 Eglė Ganda Bogdanienė_1
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#MONOTONY №4 Eglė Ganda Bogdanienė_2
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#MONOTONY №5 Ida Lovisa Rudolfsson
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Rearranging the forrest. Somewhere among the trees a story is hiding.

#MONOTONY №6 Lina Ringelienė
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#MONOTONY №7 Ieva Baltrėnaitė
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#MONOTONY №8 Lolita Tučinskaitė
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This quarantine restricts our movement, and affects our psychological state, but art like no other has the power to connect people, create dialogue and sometimes even help to better understand this whole situation, through which we can accidentally discover something good in this new reality we all live in now.

#MONOTONY №9 Severija Žukauskytė
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Monotony during quarantine for me is carrying garbage into a trash container. Now the sound of plastic between the fingers is associated with going outside.

#MONOTONY №10 Marija Žiemytė
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"Quarantine Meditation"

#MONOTONY №11 Greta Matevičiūtė
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„Ratu | Around“

#MONOTONY №12 Domas Markevičius
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"Process"

#MONOTONY №13 Zhiwei Hong (@moimoto), Dong Un Lee (@secondbiteoftheapple) | Hyperknit
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London College of Fashion, Fashion textiles: knit

At the moment, my flatmate Dong Un Lee (@secondbiteoftheapple) and I are in quarantine in our London apartment. We are both graduating this year and she studies graphic communication design in Central Saint Martins. Since I have one domestic knitting machine and a dubied 8 gauges at home, knitting 24/7, we decided to have a cross-disciplinary collaboration that she translated my knits and 3D printing samples into multi-media graphics. In this video, we recorded the sound of knitting machine when operating different techniques (eg. tubular, ladder etc.), and the sound of tension dial, needles in and out of actions. We made a 45s knit rave and play it from time to time to keep ourselves motivated in this time of self-isolation.

Stay safe and take care during COVID-19.

#MONOTONY №14 Justina Gražytė
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#MONOTONY №15 Jelena Škulis
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"My Day Before and After Instagram", 2020
Video: Aleksas Gailieša

#MONOTONY №16 Evelina Jaskevičiūtė
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#MONOTONY №17 Evelina Jaskevičiūtė
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To be continued....