Exhibition "Visions"

about

Ieva Stankutė is an artist who works in the fields of photography, book art and interdisciplinary art. She has a bachelor's degree in graphic design and is currently studying for a master's degree in photography. The author is interested in book art, experiments with various materials and forms, and searches for new visual solutions. Her work reflects personal themes - motherhood, relationships, closeness. The artist has published an author's art book and participates in exhibitions in Lithuania and abroad.
Audra Stankienė is an artist who works in the fields of sculpture, small metal sculptures and conceptual jewelry. She has graduated in glass and jewelry. In her work, she pays great attention to form, tactility and materiality. She has previously created conceptual jewelry for fashion collections presented on the catwalk. The artist is interested in the ideas of recycling, changing the meaning of objects, and the transformation of materials. Her works often balance between an art object and a wearable item, raising questions about function, value and time.
The exhibition "Visions" invites us to explore the phenomenon of vision, sight. It is not only seeing with the body, but also with the heart, consciousness, and soul. It is the ability to know, arising from silence, from observing creation. Such vision allows us to recognize God's work not only in magnificent miracles, but also in the simplest things: in the earth, in a tree, in the process of growth.
The works of two generations of creators – mother and daughter – reveal a humble but profound attitude towards living creation. Their work is not about control, but about service. Not about the desire to change, but about the desire to hear.
The signs exhibited in the exhibition – photographs of flowers, fingerprints in the ground, gardening schemes, wooden sculptures – become testimonies of vision. They testify to the encounter between man and creation, and through it – between man and God. The elements exhibited in the exhibition – become a kind of maps of signs, in which visions take shape. These are not only artistic artifacts, but also testimonies of matter.
The gardener's work is care. It is like participating in God's work of creation. The gentle hand of the grandmother, leaving imprints in the soil and plants, becomes a living sign. It points to the image of God as Creator in man, and man, as a gardener, as an artist, participates in the same action. The care of the author's grandmother here becomes a sacred posture – not dominance, but co-creation, where God and man create the world together.
The sculptor's relationship with wood is not about forcing the work into a form, but about freeing its essence from an unnecessary, hiding shell. The tree is perceived here not as a material, but as a witness - with its own "I", history, and God imprinted on it. This work is close to an alchemical, but at the same time prophetic act - it is not man speaking to the material, but the material speaking to the man.
"VISIONS" are visions of matter, the world's attempt to see itself through the gesture of human creativity. When vision becomes testimony. When the artist becomes not a shaper, but a mediator - a servant of Vision, allowing the world to unfold as God sees it.