VITA OPOSKYTĖ, SOLO EXHIBITION OF PAINTINGS BITE ME.
28 October – 14 November 2021
THE ROOSTER GALLERY, ŠV. BRUNONO BONIFACO ST. 12

Kiss me with the kisses of your mouth!
Your love is sweeter than wine,
And the fragrance of your perfume than all spices!
Your name is like perfume poured out.
The Song of Songs

The exhibition bite me presents Vita Opolskytė’s works created during the last two years. The exhibition narrative is constructed as a kind of personal tour to the artist’s home, which allows the viewer not only to get acquainted with it as a space and physical location, but also to experience home as a mental state. The painted interiors are rich in details that become powerful hints to personal stories developing there, intertwined with quotes from the history of culture, signs, facts and myths of the contemporary world, fantasies and dreams in a collage-like style. In this sticky chaos of daily life, small and big dramas unfold, with the figure of the artist herself always at the epicentre. Though she sees herself as the main object of research, the artist constantly balances between privacy and publicity, and while visualizing individual experiences, alongside seeks to reveal their universality. Thus, her self-portraits become reflections of wider cultural, social and psychological processes. In her works, beside the artist (and, naturally, her cat Izabelė), the presence and gaze of another person is constantly felt. The artist offers the viewer to take this position, albeit not always comfortable, of an observer / participant, and provokingly takes them by the hand and leads the way, commandingly whispering her orders through the ambiguous titles of the works – as a kind of instruction for this intimate meeting.
Vita Opolskytė (b. 1992) is a painter of the young generation, who in the recent years has been also active in the field of curatorship and criticism.