ARTISTS

Published on Wednesday, 26 July 2023 12:25

Case is an artist duo based in New York, composed of Ieva Lygnugaryte and Xavier Mitchell, whose work comprises video, performance, and found objects. Their practice aims to open up a line of inquiry concerning the following questions:

How much space is each individual entitled to? How can we employ acts of micro resistance within the confines of contemporary life? Can we effectively intervene in public/private space with poetry? Can we open up the use of discarded objects as a vernacular that traces the global flow of social, and material production?

At the centre of Annika Eriksson's artistic practice is an interest in social interaction: how do we live together, what kind of societies do we create, and what happens in the margins or in the transition from one social order to another? In her work, the social has always involved a key emphasis on the slippages between an individual and others – with a return to questions of interaction and exchange, circular forms of communication, self-abnegation and empathy. Her projects also engage with the relations between humans and animals; of our interdependence, blurred boundaries and connection, but also registers of violation, and the animal as a distinctively human projection surface.

Tomasz Kobialka was born in Poland, grew up in Australia and has lived and worked across the UK and Europe for the last ten years. Tomasz Kobialka's work explores the power dynamics that financial and economic regimes exert on our daily experience. Kobialka's practice integrates themes at the intersection of finance, kinship, technology, labour and digital culture. The works emerge through the lens of personal experience as well as research and participation in the communities he is investigating. They often take the form of video, animation and computer code, situated as installations. 

Mykolas Valantinas is a multidisciplinary artist who works in photography, installation and video, exploring themes of fantasy and memory. In his work, he often revisits the places, dreams and activities of his adolescence, reenacting and unlocking hidden fears, frustrations and fantasies of boyhood, as well as wider socio-political narratives they entail. Drawing inspiration from the psychoanalytic approach, past and contemporary subcultures and Lithuanian folk art symbolism, Valantinas works on the fringe of folk horror and documentary, challenging established narratives by delving into the complexities of human experience.

Marija Olšauskaitė lives and works in Vilnius. She employs various modes of collaboration and explores the themes of relationships, openness, intimacy and belonging.

Felix Kalmenson is a ‘rootless cosmopolitan’ whose practice navigates film, installation, video and performance. They are in a long-term collaboration with Rouzbeh Akhbari under the name of Pejvak.Kalmenson's work variably narrates the liminal space of a researcher and artist's encounter with landscape and archive. By bearing witness to everyday life, and hardening the more fragile vestiges of private and collective histories, Kalmenson gives themselves away to the cadence of a poem, always in flux.

Zoe Leonard is a New York based artist whose work balances rigorous conceptualism with a distinctly personal vision, which merges photography, sculpture, and installation. By employing strategies of repetition, shifting perspectives, and a multitude of printing processes, Leonard's practice probes the politics of representation and display. Leonard explores themes including gender and sexuality, loss and mourning, migration, displacement, and the urban landscape. Her photography specifically invites to contemplate the role of the medium in constructing history and a consideration of the roots of contemporary photographic culture. More than its focus on any particular subject, however, Leonard's work encourages the viewer to reconsider the act of looking itself: drawing attention to observation as a complex, ongoing process.

Fox Maxy (Mesa Grande Band of Mission Indians and Payómkawish) is a filmmaker based in San Diego. Her work has screened at Sundance, MoMA and Rotterdam. Fox's upcoming film is about mental health.

Nijolė Vilutytė is a creator of monumental art and a painter based in Vilnius, who has produced frescoes of mixed technique fresco-sgraffito, panels, stained glass for the interiors of public and cult buildings, and reliefs for sacred objects in Lithuania and abroad. In the last few years, Vilutytė has engaged in activism related to initiatives of the Lithuanian Artists Union in archiving existing and destroyed Lithuanian monumental art as well as the protection of monumental art heritage. Throughout her career since 1972 she has created approximately 93 artworks for private and public architectural spaces.

Miglė Vyčinaitė is a visual artist based in Copenhagen, Denmark. In her artistic practice, she employs various media, including video art, sculpture, sound, text and installation that explore themes such as the creation of contemporary myth and lore, magic materialism and speculative scenarios that traverse non-canonical histories.

Lukas Danys is an artist from Lithuania currently based in Copenhagen. His work often explores recurring themes of altered states of consciousness, the human condition, subcultures and technology and explores how the current societal state influences and shapes our perception and consciousness, specifically in relation to image creation.

In addition to his individual practice, he also collaborates with Danish artist Jan S. Hansen.