Kristina Alisauskaite
Painting helps me to grasp the subtle subjects that we tend to miss in our daily routine, because they become too small to notice or to pay attention to. We are used to seeing the whole, so we often overlook certain elements of our lives.
Kristina Alisauskaite via Echo Gone Wrong, 2018
A distinct feature of Kristina Alisauskaite’s (1984, Lithuania) work is laconicism. They are most often devoid of any obvious hint of action, but this emptiness is eloquent. Each composition is like a random fragment of history, a film shot, when a narrative becomes frozen for a brief moment and resumes. Yet Alisauskaite does not create a narrative. Rather, the depicted situations are cinematographic, seen many times and easily recognized. Making use of the insights of psychoanalysis, Alisauskaite analyses the universality of these human experiences and its expressions through symbolic images.
