Digital Garden

On August 13 at 7:00 PM, Contour Art Gallery opens Ana Vostruchovaitė's solo exhibition Digital Garden.

The exhibition features paintings, plaster reliefs, and jacquard fabrics created specifically for this show. The artist created the Digital Garden while reflecting on today's life between physical and virtual spaces: "The latter increasingly shapes our perception of the world, our rhythm, and our daily habits. Everyday life moves into apps, we experience the world more and more through a camera lens, and we work remotely. Even gardens are becoming digital."

For the artist, it is not just the image itself that is important, but its relationship with space. Plants and figures in her works often transcend the boundaries of the canvas, as if seeking to enter the viewer's space. In them, digital experience translates into images of nature and changes our relationship with that which grows and changes incomparably slower than technology. At the same time, the artist raises questions about the connection to place, roots, and the creation of a sense of home today.

Born in Vilnius, Ana Vostruchovaitė graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw in 2019. Her diploma project was awarded the Academy Rector's prize and the Stefan Gierowski prize, and was presented at the exhibition Coming Out: The Best Academy of Fine Arts Diploma Projects of 2019.

For the artist, who lives between Vilnius and Warsaw, the question of her own identity is extremely important. It is fluid, shaped by memory, place, and being "between" different cultures and environments. In her childhood, the artist was surrounded by the lush nature of Pavilnys. Today, her life is divided between two different cities, but Pavilnys remains her inner landscape – a place where languages, cultures, and different identities intertwine. From here arises one of the most important ideas in her work: identity is not static; it can be consciously created and constantly rethought. For the artist, this process begins with a connection to nature, place, and one's roots.

Ana Vostruchovaitė has held and participated in solo and group exhibitions in Poland and other countries, and her works are currently also on display at the Zachęta National Gallery of Art's project space, Miejsce Projektów Zachęty in Warsaw, in the exhibition House on Roots (Dom na korzeniach). She has also created the work Steel Roots for the public space of Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski. Her work has been featured in art publications and exhibition catalogs, including the London-based ArtMaze Mag (No. 32–33, 2023).

Ana Vostruchovaitė's work is being presented in Vilnius for the first time. The works will spread across two spaces – the installation of wall-mounted sculptural objects Virtual Space (Digital Space) will also be exhibited at the space of Contour Art Gallery's partner, KUKLA Beauty Box (Visų Šventųjų St. 9, Vilnius). Thus, the exhibition's themes will unfold beyond the gallery walls.