Artist statement



Through experimenting and playing with different materials (wood, clay, steal) and mediums (printmaking, painting, sculpture, writing, photography), I search for new forms that relate to humanness, all other fauna and flora, but yet is none of them, and knead the boundaries between them all.


I think about and create around an idea of a slightly different world structure that would be an alternative to the current relationship of controlled wild nature and controlling flawed human.


My sculptures are a space for human mind and eyes to daydream, for the accidental fly to wander around, and for the vine to entangle, and change the sculptures all together.

Silvija Vaitiekūnaitė is a Lithuanian multi-media artist currently based in Brighton, United Kingdom, and a recent Fine Art graduate at Falmouth University. Through experimenting with different materials (latex, coffee, branches, metal and clay), her practice investigates the modern relationship between human, nature and technology, digs into the feelings of anxiousness about the future and tries to imagine a different more symbiotic world.

Using steel to create organic or fragile forms, Silvija creates a visual language that shifts the worldly order. Steel that is mostly used for infrastructure, buildings, trains, tools and machinery in her practice changes its purpose, becomes something more ambiguous, organic and alive. It becomes a lung, a shell, a creature, a storm with roots - something that pulsates with verve.

Influential Research:

"Agnes Martin: Writings"
by Agnes Martin

"Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene"
by Donna J. Haraway

"David Lynch: The Air Is on Fire"
by David Lynch

"Modern Man in Search of a Soul"
by Carl G. Jung

"The Poetics of Space"
by Gaston Bachelard

"Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures"
by Mark Fisher

"Sapiens: a Brief History of Humankind"
by Yuval Noah Harari