Aurelija Maknytė's exhibition "Channels"

The exhibition "Channels" is the first comprehensive presentation of Aurelija Maknytė's work, surveying her artistic practice spanning nearly three decades and introducing both well-known and previously rarely shown works.

One of the main themes of the exhibition is light. In the Great Hall of the National Gallery of Art, daylight meets the light emitted by television screens, electric bulbs, and video projections. Fragments of the "Light Therapy I–III" series, recreated specifically for the exhibition, reveal the artist's long-term interest in light as a condition for technological imagery and as an independent creative material.

For over a decade, A. Maknytė has been building a personal television archive: she recorded fragments of shows and films onto VHS tapes, using them to create video works, fictional autobiographies, and new narratives. The exhibition also recalls the experimental project ŠMC TV, to which the artist contributed.

VHS tapes, photo negatives, floppy disks, slides, video recordings, and found objects become not only repositories of memory in Maknytė's work but also works of art themselves. For her, collecting is a way to create new connections between seemingly unrelated things.

Nature occupies a particularly important place in the exhibition. Observations of plants, animals, and the landscape taking place on the artist's "Earth," a plot of land by the Širvinta River, become part of her creative work. Objects originating from the natural environment are exhibited in the courtyard of the National Gallery of Art.

Curators: Inesa Brašiškė, Agnė Narušytė

Architect: Beatričė Mockevičiūtė

Graphic Designer: Jonė Miškinytė

Sponsor: "Exterus: Fundermax"

Partner: "Meno avilys"

Information partners: "Delfi", "JCDecaux"

Exhibition organizer: LNDM National Gallery of Art