HORIZON

Group exhibition curated by Esther Mlenek and Sira-Zoé Schmid
Bildraum Studio, Vienna, 2022

Exhibition view
The Peninsula, 165 × 112 cm, left
Locomotion — Cognition, Backbord, 102 × 68 cm, right
Hand-drawing, ink on paper

We usually do only that which is purposeful, useful. But an intuition, a discovery, new knowledge goes beyond the rational mind. In his multi-media art projects Lithuanian-born artist Jurgis Gečys tries to evade rational justifications by shifting completely away from everything that he knows about a surrounding, forgetting its physical, biological, chemical properties, borders and names of the landscapes. During a solo photographic-expeditions by different means of locomotion across various critical environments like driest deserts, eroding islands and peninsulas, melting glaciers, the artist worked through his question of a tangible dialog between humans and nature. In his answers, the artist announces unforeseen directions and discovers a new world for old dreams, something entirely foreign, yet strangely familiar. In his painstakingly meticulous drawings, Jurgis Gečys thinks about the various ways that we can use the awareness of nothingness or the potential of solitude to not only come to terms with reality, but to forge a new path that connects the strength of purpose with deeply felt freedom.

text by Esther Hladik

Cognition, Backbord, 2022
Hand-drawn ink on paper
15 × 30 cm

HORIZON, Bildraum Studio
Gallery facade at Brotfabrik Wien
Vienna, 2022