Eglė Einikytė-Narkevičienė: One Size, 2019-2023
The central leitmotif of my work is a human being and their environment. In my exhibition, One Size, I want to talk about a person, people, and their different experiences. It is important to me to reveal the inner conflicts of a human being and their complex spiritual state that is always affected and shaped by the environment. I am interested in how the environment shapes a person, what kind of experiences we gain, how they persist, and their impact on our future lives. What helps us grow, and what destroys us? For example, in one of my latest sculptural compositions, I compared a One Size person to a piece of plasticine. Externally, they are similar only in the initial stage – while lying untouched in the box. They are all smooth and tidy; only the color differs. A human being, just like plasticine, is very plastic and can be easily deformed and damaged. They easily absorb the environmental effect and reflect it. Voltaire once said, “For a human, environment is his destiny.” This brings out a question: what would become of us if we were planted in one type of soil or another? Therefore, in this exhibition, I want to convey the impact of the environment not only through the medium of plastic, deformation, and contrast but also through color.
Captions
- Balance, 2020, Stoneware, glaze, stains, 56x40x15 cm., photo Vėtrė Antanavičiūtė
- Conversation, 2020, stoneware, glazes, stains, 59x78x14 cm., photo Vėtrė Antanavičiūtė
- Distance, 2020, stoneware, stains, 64x50x50 cm., photo Vėtrė Antanavičiūtė
- In the Depth, 2020, stoneware, stains, 1500x64x65 cm., photo Daiva Liubamirskaitė
- One Size exhibition at Mark Rothko Art Center, Latvia, 2020
- Yellow Balloon, 2020, stoneware, stains, glazes, 70x45x17 cm., photo Vėtrė Antanavičiūtė
- Horizon I, 2020, bone china, stains, 180×23 cm, photo Vėtrė Antanavičiūtė
- Horizon II, 2020, bone china, stains, h39 cm, photo Vėtrė Antanavičiūtė
- Melting White, 2023, stoneware, glaze, 37x10x40 cm., photo Vėtrė Antanavičiūtė
- Two Sides, 2020, stoneware, stains, 65x64x18 cm., photo Daiva Liubamirskaitė
- One Size, 2019, stoneware, stains, h 57 cm., photo Daiva Liubamirskaitė
