Opening of the exhibition "The Light that Grows"

In the exhibition, The Light That Grows, Aušra Kaziliūnaitė, using video, photography, text and installation art practices, reflects on the circulation and metabolism of memory and time, or rather, of the ecosystems of memories and times. The plants looking out from screens at the exhibition visitors grow, responding with their lives to the inevitable cycles of light and darkness. The mechanism of photography also depends on the interplay of light and darkness. In the dynamics of their change one can sense ritualistic potential. The artist raises the question: can a similar dynamic be seen in the act of creation?

In the video work, “Plants That Grow in My Sky,” Aušra Kaziliūnaitė, who is also one of the most prominent contemporary Lithuanian poets, says, while placing pink sticks in the snow: “Ritual does not multiply names, but helps us let them go.” In the works on display, one can feel the deliberately created tension between text and image, between image in text and text as image. The exhibition The Light That Grows explores the boundaries of art as ritual and raises the question of whether such an existential stance is possible, which, through art as ritual, would allow us to directly encounter the sensual and mysterious form of the world.

Aušra Kaziliūnaitė (b. 1987) is an artist working in the fields of texts, video, performance, photography and installation. In 2024-2025, Kaziliūnaitė’s works were exhibited at the Akademie der Künste in Berlin, the Goethe's Institute in Tokyo, and the Estonian Literary Association in Tartu. Kaziliūnaitė is also a well known writer who has published five books of poetry and whose work has been translated into twenty languages and presented in some of the most important cultural and artistic centers in Europe, America, and Asia. Kaziliūnaitė is also a scholarly researcher who completed a doctoral internship in 2016-2017 in philosophy at the Amsterdam School for Culture Analysis (ASCA) in the University of Amsterdam. In 2020, she defended her dissertation in philosophy at Vilnius University and received the title of Doctor of Humanities. Since 2024, she has been a postdoctoral fellow at the Vilnius Academy of Arts. She also teaches at the Department of Philosophy and Cultural Studies at the Vilnius Gediminas Technical University.

Graphic designer: Jurgis Griškevičius
Translator: Rimas Užgiris
Lithuanian language editor: Aira Niauronytė
Financed by: Lithuanian Council for Culture

The exhibition will be on display from March 14, 2025 to April 13, 2025 
Gallery's working hours: II-V 11:00–18:30 ❖ VI–VII - 11:00–16:00 ❖ I - Closed