Jurgita Remeikyté, Litauen

"Focusing"

3. - 25. juni

 

Galleri Image and the Spanien 19C Exhibition Space present from June 3rd to 25th 2006 a double-exhibition by the Lithuanian artist Jurgita Remeikyte

Focusing - Foreground and Background

Jurgita Remeikyte's double exhibition Focusing - Foreground and Background invites the viewer to reflect on the relationship between foreground and background. Her work is anchored in photographic strategies and concepts, and she uses her unique understanding of spatial elements to create rooms for the viewer to discover, where the background in one situation becomes the foreground in the next.
Jurgita Remeikyte's works play with the concepts of foreground and background and invite viewers to reflect on how they focus on a scene through their choice of foreground and background. The exhibition demonstrates that this choice can be made in different ways.
Jurgita Remeikyte works in a zone between photography and installation, poetically bringing into play both the two-dimensional and the three-dimensional. She is thus an exponent for that interdisciplinary approach that is often used by the younger generation of Lithuanian photo artists.
The exhibition takes its point of departure in the two exhibition spaces and their geographic locations. Galleri Image is thus the foreground, located in the center of town, and Spanien 19C is the background outside the center of town. The foreground-background dialog thus also takes place not only within each exhibition, but also across town.
Jurgita Remeikyte received her education at the Department of Photo and Media at the Art Academy in Vilnius, Lithuania, and at the Utrecht School of the Arts in Holland. She has in addition studied theology and philosophy at Vytautus Magnus University in Kaunas, Lithuania.
Jurgita Remeikyte is a senior lecturer at the Art Academy of Vilnius. She has participated in a number of group exhibitions in Europe, and has held individual exhibitions in Lithuania, Poland, and Belgium. In 2006 she will also be exhibiting in Juodkrante and Siauliai in Lithuania, and in Dresden and Dortmund in Germany.
This collaborative effort between Image and Spanien 19C is based on the hope of growing levels of cooperation between exhibition spaces in Aarhus. Collaborative exhibitions can give artists the chance of showing their works in an expanded forum, and can be a source of inspiration for new ways of working and exhibiting as an artist.
Jurgita Remeikyte will be present at the opening, which starts at Galleri Image on Saturday, June 3 at 14.00. At 15.00 a bus will drive guests to the Spanien 19C Exhibition Space, where the opening will continue with a performance by Jurgita Remeikyte at about 15.15.
The exhibition is supported by Aarhus Municipality's Cultural Development Fund and by the Nordic Council of Ministers' Sleipnir grant.

During June, Galleri Image's Demorum will present Give them Sweets by Kim T. Grønborg, a seductive, red candy universe, a spatial illusion created by lights and mirrors. "Give them what they want, shiny surfaces, form without content, keep up appearances because that is all that's left. Sweets to the sweet, candy for the people."

Galleri Image, Vestergade 29, 8000 Århus C
tel/fax: +45 8620 2429 mail: kontor@galleriimage.dk web: www.galleriimage.dk

Spanien 19C Exhibition Space, Kalkværksvej 5, 8000 Aarhus C.
tel: +45 2230 8459 web: www.spanien19c.dk

Galleri Image
Vestergade 29
8000 Århus C
tel/fax: 8620 2429
mail: kontor@galleriimage.dk
web: www.galleriimage.dk

Open Tuesday - Sunday from 13-17

Spanien 19C
Kalkværksvej 5A
8000 Århus C
tel: 2230 8459
web: www.spanien19c.dk

Open Tuesday - Sunday from 13-17