Dream Belly-up (Dog or Fish?) | Ieva Rižė exhibition
The fourth exhibition of the program "Dream Belly-up (Dog or Fish?)", featuring works by artist Ieva Rižė, is on view at the Kaunas Artists' House Gallery until October 18th.
"Nothing is as real as true happiness, or everything that is Real is dangerous", a stranger once said. Can we imagine a world without abstract fixations, without the limits of true knowledge?
As the cultural theorist, Denise Ferreira da Silva argues, it is only thinking freed from certainties and relying on imagination that creates a new sociality, a new image of the world, without violence against the "Other". Relying on Denise's theory, the artist Ieva Rižė will present an intense spectrum of uncertainty, ignorance, fragmentation, and ruptures in the fourth exhibition "Dream Belly-up (Dog or Fish?)". Here, commonality spills out like water, it spreads across the boundaries drawn by knowledge, status, religion, skin colour, gender, and species.
Embodied knowledge, while often undermined and marginalised within the contemporary colonial episteme, confirms the West's establishment of one way of knowing. Meanwhile, sensuous knowledges, manifested through poetics, aesthetics, and other bodily encounters, open up alternative ways of knowing ourselves and the world around us. It is this exploration of the relationship with the world and the environment that can be felt and experienced in Ieva Rižė's constructed bed (exhibition) for sleeping, where there is a frame, a mattress, a sheet, a pillow, a body, and a blanket. Everything unfolds in layers: the artist's never-ending journey as a body unable to escape the effects of time and connections as markings of bodies. The sensuous, embodied, affective, and imaginative relationship with the world opens the way for different ethics and politics.
To open oneself to different ethics and aesthetics and to leave behind, to abandon the image of the one true world, is a task that is always building up, but still remains only in the dream, only in the moment, only in the washed-out imaginative archives.
Ieva Rižė is an interdisciplinary artist living and working in Vilnius. RIžė holds a Bachelor's degree in Monumental Painting and Stage Design and a Master's degree in Contemporary Sculpture from the Vilnius Academy of Arts. Her practice includes three-dimensional painting, sculptural installations, video recordings, and performative practices, often incorporating texts, sounds, or drawings. Ieva focuses on the human psyche, temporality, relationships within closed groups, and themes of identity and power.
Exhibition working hours:
I-V 10:00 - 18:00
VI 12:00 - 16:00
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Curator of the exhibition: Agnė Bagdžiūnaitė
The architects of the exhibition: Matas Šatūnas and Laura Kaminskaitė
Exhibition technician: Laura Skučaitė
Curator of the discursive and performative program: Edvinas Grinkevičius
Visual graphics: Kornelija Zizaitė
The event is part of the project "Belly-up Dream (Dog or Fish?)". The project is financed by the Lithuanian Council for Culture.
