Monitoring Sea Change

About

The title is partly borrowed from the title of one of the works on show and refers to an English aphorism for any major transformation. Both ecological and sociological concerns are emphasized within the works in this show.

Recurring concerns in Gabrielė Žemaitytė’s work include digital technologies, social behaviours, mythology, ideas of Artificial Intelligence, and human sensitivity towards Others and nature. In this retrospective show, in the country where she was raised, the artist invites the visitor to walk through a selection of past projects from her oeuvre and ponder how human subjects position themselves and their technologies within the ever-shifting environments. 

In a constant attempt to reflect on continuous changes in the human relation to their surroundings and to each other, Žemaitytė draws on Conceptual Art traditions and Postmodern ideas of re-appropriation as well as the ways in which meaning is both captured, generated or even imposed. Through a broad range of media, including text, imagery, software, objects, and spatial installation the artist shifts aspects of singular observations and takes them to a new frame of reference. 

Curator Rafaela Sousa