Ieva Rojūtė
Ieva Rojūtė. Mother&Tongue, 2018. Photo Editorial Projects
Ieva Rojūtė (born 1989) is an emerging Lithuanian artist and painter. Her textual works, which acquire the spatial form of an installation, explore everyday human relationships, conflicts of family and individual identity, and everyday folklore. In her work, Ieva Rojūtė repeatedly returns to her main themes of fear, failure, disaster, and anxiety. By rewriting excerpts from conversations, pieces of advice, warnings, and speeches, the artist presents fragments from the shared past and collective dreams.
Rojūtė’s work combines hand-written texts that turn into images and drawings of natural elements and abstract forms. They act almost as separate objects found by the artist in her everyday environment. The author creates evocative installations that adapt to exhibition spaces by wrapping around them almost like climbing plants or snakes. Talking about small and big failures or fears, the artist investigates, sensitively and aptly, a wide range of mental states which shape the contours of our imperfect but inevitable reality.
In 2013, the artist graduated from the Vilnius Academy of Arts with a degree in painting. Since 2017, she has actively participated in exhibitions in Lithuania and abroad. The artist’s work was exhibited in group exhibitions such as the 13th International Baltic Triennial at the Contemporary Art Center and Tallinn Art Hall (2018), the Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art in Warsaw, the Autarkia project space in Vilnius, TUM Cultural Association, Le Murate in Florence, the Vartai Gallery in Vilnius, and the Bus Projects space in Melbourne. Together with the Editorial project space, she participated in the Project Space Festival in Berlin (2019). Ieva Rojūtė has also organized solo exhibitions at the Editorial project space in Vilnius and the PS2 project space in Belfast (Northern Ireland).