Gedvile Bunikyte: Sculpture No. 1 and a White Drawing
Mittwoch, 18. Februar 2015 - 19:00 Uhr
SWDZ - So Weit, Die Zukunft
Thank you to The Embassy of Lithuania, especially Ms Lina Kaiser, cultural attachée, for supporting this exhibition.
SWDZ presents Lithuanian born artist Gedvile Bunikyte?s – aka Grace B – second solo exhibition in Vienna.
Sculpture No. 1 and a White Drawing is a two part installation that consists of multiple paper sculptures and a single drawing which is framed back side up. With this minimalistic gesture the artist opens up the conversation about the seen and the unseen, imaginable and unimagined, physical and non-matter. The sculptures are in the shape of a tube and contain visual information
in a form of intricate line drawings inside themselves thus shifting the focus from the image and information centric point of view and thus undermining its hierarchy. The tubes all stand individually but simultaneously coexist like cells within a single larger organism. Each related to each other and each carrying its own information. Each one is a universe within the universe. The tubes growing like
tree trunks out of the ground poetically remind one of the inevitable interdependence and connectivity of all as well as the cyclical movements in nature and its fragility.
Bunikyte was born in 1984 in Kaunas, Lithuania. She graduated from Goldsmiths University London in 2007. Her early art practice included dance, theatre, live art and video. Bunikyte has performed in venues such
as Whitechapel Gallery, South London Gallery, Royal Academy of Arts. Her current practice primarily consists of works on paper, a meditative process that is deeply influenced by artist?s interests in philosophy, psychology, religions, mysticism and spirituality. In 2014 fourteen of her works were hand-picked by Paul Smith and Friends for his London show during the Frieze Art Fair. Lawrence
Alkin Gallery London exhibited Bunikyte?s work alongside the likes of Andy Warhol and Damien Hirst.