21/10/2018 Severine Grosjean
The young Lithuanian artist Lina Albrikiene draws inspiration from her personal life in her artistic practice. Childhood, family and memory are the bases of her research translated into installations, videos or photos. This way, she invites you for a trip in the past.
In her 2009 video “Vilnius from the Archives of My Childhood, Lazdynai”, Lina uses autobiographical images of her childhood creating a relationship with the past and with her family members. This work, like others carried out in recent years, shows documents in which the artist illustrates a family portrait. She creates a kind of diary. Her memories, her source of inspiration, allow her to know and to recognize herself better. She builds a personal itinerary that takes the form of a self-portrait.
The nostalgic figures of his father and mother are at the center of her work. This is particularly the case of “Tree for my father Paneriai 1983-2014” in memory of her father who died in 1983. She wishes to show this meeting with a series of photographs represented as a trip.
Time is running out. She immortalizes it. The viewers discover and relives the memories of their childhood. It is a real exploration of time, social space and daily life.
Lina Albrikiene treats the fragmented body as in the “Study of leg” project. Compared to a classic sculpture, she exhibits a series of prosthetic photographs of her right leg, remembering her brother’s amputation, which she has not always accepted. She reveals the disturbing strangeness of a body, which, in this work, represents to her the perpetual transformation. The body sometimes can be injured, but it can be transformed, it can return to life and move forward. The amputation reveals a huge tragic detonator. The frontality of mutilation serves as a catalyst.
In her new project “The Shred”, Lina Albrikiene is inspired by “The White Shroud” from the Lithuanian writer and director Antanas Škema, who films naked women in an elevator taking positions between shadow and light, while the elevator goes up and down. The unraveling opens to forms of bizarre or fantastic corporealities. Beyond the emotion that this situation can cause, the representation of a body reached in its entirety questions the imagination and disturbs the fearss.This work illustrates images whose harmony is perceived in spite of a manifest bodily absence, renews the appearance of the body in many facets that horrifies as much as it fascinates. In this tragedy, Lina shows a metaphor of the nonsense and absurdity of the human condition.
Lina Albrikiene makes the body absent and shows a recurring and interesting theme in her works.
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