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Sapnas pilvu į viršų (šuo ar žuvis?) | Ieva Rižė
2024-09-27 10:00 - 2024-10-18 18:00 Kauno menininkų namai, V. Putvinskio gatvė, Kaunas, Kauno m. sav See on map

Dream Belly-up (Dog or Fish?) | Ieva Rižė

The fourth exhibition of the program "Dream Belly-up (Dog or Fish?)", featuring works by artist Ieva Rižė is on view at the Kaunas Artists' House Gallery until October 18th.
"𝑁𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑖𝑠 𝑎𝑠 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑙 𝑎𝑠 𝑡𝑟𝑢𝑒 ℎ𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑠, 𝑜𝑟 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑖𝑠 𝑅𝑒𝑎𝑙 𝑖𝑠 𝑑𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑠", a stranger once said. Can we imagine a world without abstract fixations, without the limits of true knowledge?
As the cultural theorist, Denise Ferreira da Silva argues, only thinking freed from certainties and relying on imagination creates a new sociality, a new image of the world, without violence against the "Other". Relying on Denise's theory, the artist Ieva Rižė will present an intense spectrum of uncertainty, ignorance, fragmentation, and ruptures in the fourth exhibition "Dream Belly-up (Dog or Fish?)". Here, commonality spills out like water, it spreads across the boundaries drawn by knowledge, status, religion, skin colour, gender, and species.
Embodied knowledge, while often undermined and marginalised within the contemporary colonial episteme, confirms the West's establishment of one way of knowing. Meanwhile, sensuous knowledges, manifested through poetics, aesthetics, and other bodily encounters, open up alternative ways of knowing ourselves and the world around us. It is this exploration of the relationship with the world and the environment that can be felt and experienced in Ieva Rižė's constructed bed (exhibition) for sleeping, where there is a frame, a mattress, a sheet, a pillow, a body, and a blanket. Everything unfolds in layers: the artist's never-ending journey as a body unable to escape the effects of time and connections as markings of bodies. The sensuous, embodied, affective, and imaginative relationship with the world opens the way for different ethics and politics.
To open oneself to different ethics and aesthetics and to leave behind, to abandon the image of the one true world, is a task that is always building up, but still remains only in the dream, only in the moment, only in the washed-out imaginative archives.
**Ieva Rižė** is an interdisciplinary artist living and working in Vilnius. RIžė holds a Bachelor's degree in Monumental Painting and Stage Design and a Master's degree in Contemporary Sculpture from the Vilnius Academy of Arts. Her practice includes three-dimensional painting, sculptural installations, video recordings, and performative practices, often incorporating texts, sounds, or drawings. Ieva focuses on the human psyche, temporality, relationships within closed groups, and themes of identity and power.
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Exhibition working hours:
I-V 10:00 - 18:00
VI 12:00 - 16:00
__Curator of the exhibition: Agnė Bagdžiūnaitė
__The architects of the exhibition: Matas Šatūnas and Laura Kaminskaitė
__Exhibition technician: Laura Skučaitė
__Curator of the discursive and performative program: Edvinas Grinkevičius
__Visual graphics: Kornelija Zizaitė
The event is part of the project "Belly-up Dream (Dog or Fish?)". The project is financed by the Lithuanian Council for Culture.
More information about the project: https://kmn.lt/projects/belly-up-dream-dog-or-fish