between the doors
a group exhibition brings together emerging artists to reflect on how narratives of lived reality are constructed, and how everyday actions and familiar objects can become strange and unrecognizable. The exhibition explores moments of disorientation within the flow of time—pauses in thresholds while searching for direction.
Exhibition initiated by: Emilija Višinskaitė and Laura Matukonytė
Text by: Ernesta Balnytė
Graphic design by: Studio Cryo
Photos by: Nikodemas Trusovas
Featuring works by students and graduates of the Sculpture Department at the Vilnius Academy of Arts (Vilnius Faculty): Ernesta Balnytė, Ieva Černiauskaitė, Petras Domas Dūda, Gustė Kripaitė, Laura Matukonytė, Žygimantas Mockevičius, Aistė Radzevičiūtė, Matas Sergijus Šatūnas, Nikodemas Trusovas, and Emilija Višinskaitė.
Reflections of the sun and the moon in day and night pass almost imperceptibly across the walls of the room; hours and minutes slip along the doorframe. Moments get lost in unfinished conversations, in breaking dishes, in dreams, in a cracked bus stop screen, in revealed secrets, in imagined situations.
Sometimes the flow of time freezes in the doorway, where a meeting is about to happen. Hesitating to cross the threshold, minutes stretch into weeks; empty rooms begin to fill. It seems that nothing is happening—until everything changes.
Matas Sergijus Šatūnas
“Grandmother’s kitchen table”, 2024
Print on office paper (2,8m x 2,2m) / Video (14:00min) / Audio (37:34min) / A torn page from a notebook.
The work showcases the artists developed photography technique, a way of seeing reality in a different perspective and then breaking it. The subject matter is personal and explores how we develop and capture memories, the memories the artist formed of his grandparents and the mortality of the future.
Aistė Radzevičiūtė
“Mats (Shavasana)”, 2025
Aistė Radzevičiūtė
“Little Cigi”, 2025
Gustė Kripaitė
„Chair Bed“ , 2024
„Mental Health Walk“, 2024
Metal, paper
The metal structure refers to the sofa bed as an object that belonged to a home of the past. The sofa, an object that enables collectivity, is transformed into a chair that suggests individuality. The paper book—a barely functional flipbook—contains quotes found in self-help books. The conceptual and material dysfunction of the objects becomes a reference to the processes of memory. Through partial decay, memories are transformed into versions of themselves that no longer correspond to reality.
Petras Domas Dūda
“Weather forecast after the news”, 2025
cardboard box, accidentally broken plate, bubble mailer, text, pearl head pins
Nikodemas Trusovas
Fabric No. 1, 2025
Wallpaper, gel ink
Emilija Višinskaitė
“written in a blue pen”, 2026
found fabric
By looking closely at the visible and long-covered layers, there is a possibility of seeing what lies hidden. A remnant of the textile industry, found by chance and separated from the abundance destined to be discarded, speaks as a witness to the unceasing cycle of production.
Ernesta Balnytė
Moonlight in the glaciers, 2025
Stop motion photograph, glass
’’Moonlight in the Glaciers" is a work of two complementary parts. Stop motion image is created during the creative process of the author's previous work - "Oblivion". Stop motion image shows illuminated silk. Author delves into the union of the micro and macro worlds.
Žygimantas Mockevičius
„Secretion“, 2024
Tree bark, hot-melt glue
After a walk I brought home thoughts about the tree sap I had observed. The images of it flowing turned into an allusion to the secretion of bodily fluids. This sculptural object is like a personified intermediary between the observed processes of nature organisms, imagination and physicality.
Nikodemas Trusovas
“Big Hard Sun”, 2026
Video loop (2:32), audio
Matas Sergijus Šatūnas x Gerardas Raitas Šatūnas
“Keys from a studio that burnt down in the Netherlands”, 2025
Keys / Glass. 6x (7cm x 9,5cm).
Laura Matukonytė
“Under the Weight of Fatigue”, 2026
aluminium blind, paper, seam
The atmosphere lingering over the city cannot be dispersed. Around the clock, the air is saturated with fine, invisible droplets of water. Visibility constantly shifts, depending on the concentration of droplets in a given volume of air, and the most dangerous moments occur when these fluctuations become greater than usual.
In this city, covered by a cloud of mist, some felt a loneliness permeated by an infinite longing for connection, while others, on the contrary, experienced a sense of privacy.
Ieva Černiauskaitė
„The pleasant one“, 2026
Side brushes, metal motors, wall, wires, Arduino Uno clone, power supply
The trolleybuses that slow down before stops they don’t stop at deceive me. Especially when I’m standing in the rain and want to move somewhere without it. But the opposite - I’m glad when my pulse slows down but doesn’t fully stop while I wait the whole minute for your answer after asking you out to see a film.
Text by Neda Rimaitė
Special thanks to Domas Puvačiauskas and Neda Rimaitė
