Painter Emilis Šeputis
Light artist Nojus Drąsutis
Photographer Andrej Vasilenko
thank you CINEVERA rental
Exhibited at the Rooster Gallery
<…> The exhibition KRIPTIK unfolds as a perpetual interplay of encoding, decoding, and transcoding, where the various visual elements within the artist’s works coalesce into enigmatic wholes. Šeputis poses an unsolvable conundrum, drawing inspiration from diverse iconographic traditions and appropriating materials from seemingly random sources. The result is a synthesis of disparate imagery into novel, culturally rich formations that bear witness to the multiplicity and global nature of contemporary visual culture. The fragmented and collaged landscape of today’s visuals, interwoven with different temporalities, is a central theme in Šeputis’ exploration. <…>
We wanted to create a subtile balance between “white walls, low contrast, no shadows” lighting typical to galleries, and muddiness, dirtiness of an unrefined and rough environment . That meant leaving the industrial celling open. The light construction elements, cables, gaffer tape etc. were left visible too. We chose fluorescent tubes, both industrial and made for cinema. Every fixture had it’s own individual tint and flicker because of their age (the lights were taken from cine lights rental, fluorescents are used very rarely nowadays). Soft light also helped to perceive the wall as a canvas and Emilis used that by decorating the wall with monochrome figures and texts.
