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Exhibitions — 2019
Indrė Šerpytytė
From.Between.To
5 April – 18 May 2019
Indrė Šerpytytė:
From.Between.To
Installation view
Photo: Peter Mallet
Indrė Šerpytytė:
From.Between.To
Installation view
Photo: Peter Mallet
Indrė Šerpytytė:
From.Between.To
Installation view
Photo: Peter Mallet
Indrė Šerpytytė:
From.Between.To
Installation view
Photo: Peter Mallet
Indrė Šerpytytė:
From.Between.To
Installation view
Photo: Peter Mallet
Indrė Šerpytytė:
From.Between.To
Installation view
Photo: Peter Mallet
Indrė Šerpytytė:
From.Between.To
Installation view
Photo: Peter Mallet
Indrė Šerpytytė:
From.Between.To
Installation view
Photo: Peter Mallet
Indrė Šerpytytė:
From.Between.To
Installation view
Photo: Peter Mallet
Indrė Šerpytytė:
From.Between.To
Installation view
Photo: Peter Mallet
Indrė Šerpytytė:
From.Between.To
Installation view
Photo: Peter Mallet
Indrė Šerpytytė:
From.Between.To
Installation view
Photo: Peter Mallet
Indrė Šerpytytė:
From.Between.To
Installation view
Photo: Peter Mallet
Indrė Šerpytytė:
From.Between.To
Installation view
Photo: Peter Mallet
Indrė Šerpytytė:
From.Between.To
Installation view
Photo: Peter Mallet
Indrė Šerpytytė:
From.Between.To
Installation view
Photo: Peter Mallet
Indrė Šerpytytė:
From.Between.To
Installation view
Photo: Peter Mallet
Indrė Šerpytytė:
From.Between.To
Installation view
Photo: Peter Mallet
Indrė Šerpytytė:
From.Between.To
Installation view
Photo: Peter Mallet
Parafin is pleased to announce an exhibition of new work by Lithuanian artist Indrė Šerpytytė, her second at the gallery. This exhibition coincides with ‘When the Golden Sun Sinks’, a solo display of newly commissioned works at Rugby Art Gallery and Museum. At Parafin, Šerpytytė will show a series of new textile works for the first time in London.
At the core of Šerpytytė’s practice lies an interest in conflict and its accompanying trauma. Working across photography, sculpture and mixed media, much of her previous work centres on the recent history of Lithuania, how it is recalled and its influence on national identity. However, these new works step away from such specificity, instead exploring the use of culturally charged symbols as an abstract language: a form of communication that traces a universal discourse.
In the series ‘From.Between.To’, Šerpytytė employs ceremonial sashes specific to the Baltic region, overlapping and layering them across canvas stretchers. Using traditional materials, these works trace how the region’s communities intersect; motifs from one country are legible in another and reveal a call and response between nations that share a narrative of conflict. She also looks at how the repetition – or rhythm – of these patterns might be understood as a wider visual language, one that can communicate between cultures or regions familiar with war. Just as linguistic forms of expression facilitate a communal purpose, so visual matter can be incorporated into a process of mutual understanding.
Away from the Baltic context the works also address a different history, that of international Modernism and in particular the development of abstraction and the concept of the Readymade. By weaving the sashes into complex grids on canvas stretchers Šerpytytė recalls the tropes of geometric abstraction. By using them unaltered, as Readymades, she both celebrates and deconstructs their historic meaning. Having initially begun the series working with traditional colour schemes – typically, reds, yellows, black and white – she now also collaborates with the weavers to produce the sashes in vibrant colours that recall the chromatic intensity of Pop and Op art, furthering the layered referentiality of the works.
Works from the series ‘From.Between.To’ are included in the major new Phaidon book ‘Vitamin T’.
Selected Works
Indrė Šerpytytė
Serenity. From the series From.Between.To
2019
Cotton on wooden stretcher, 110 × 110 cm
Photo: Peter Mallet
PFN01942
Indrė Šerpytytė
Fata Morgana. From the series From.Between.To
2019
Cotton on wooden stretcher, 106 × 106 cm
Photo: Peter Mallet
PFN01958
Indrė Šerpytytė
Eden. From the series From.Between.To
2019
Cotton on wooden stretcher, 114 × 114 cm
Photo: Peter Mallet
PFN01959
Indrė Šerpytytė
Grace. From the series From.Between.To
2019
Cotton on wooden stretcher, 117 × 117 cm
Photo: Peter Mallet
PFN01960
Indrė Šerpytytė
Sol. From the series From.Between.To
2019
Cotton on wooden stretcher, 114 × 114 cm
Photo: Peter Mallet
PFN01961
Indrė Šerpytytė
Vivication. From the series From.Between.To
2019
Cotton on wooden stretcher, 178 × 82 cm
Photo: Peter Mallet
PFN01988
Indrė Šerpytytė
Rise. From the series From.Between.To
2019
Cotton on wooden stretcher, 133.5 × 133.5 cm
Photo: Peter Mallet
PFN01989
Indrė Šerpytytė
Integer. From the series From.Between.To
2019
Cotton on wooden stretcher, 83.5 × 83.5 cm
Photo: Peter Mallet
PFN01990
Indrė Šerpytytė
Renewal. From the series From.Between.To
2019
Cotton on wooden stretcher, 84 × 174 cm
Photo: Peter Mallet
PFN01991
Indrė Šerpytytė
Rapt. From the series From.Between.To
2019
Cotton on wooden stretcher, 104 × 103.5 cm
Photo: Peter Mallet
PFN01992
Indrė Šerpytytė
Empyrean. From the series From.Between.To
2019
Cotton on wooden stretcher, 143.5 × 143.5 cm
Photo: Peter Mallet
PFN01993
Indrė Šerpytytė
Vicissitude. From the series From.Between.To
2019
Cotton on wooden stretcher, 183.5 × 183.5 cm
Photo: Peter Mallet
PFN01994
Indrė Šerpytytė
Roots. From the series From.Between.To
2018
Cotton on wooden stretcher, 32 × 48 cm
PFN01561
Indrė Šerpytytė
Vim. From the series From.Between.To
2018
Cotton on wooden stretcher, 36 × 21 cm
PFN01562
Indrė Šerpytytė
Matter. From the series From.Between.To
2018
Cotton on wooden stretcher, 35 × 49 cm
PFN01572
Indrė Šerpytytė
Expanse. From the series From.Between.To
2018
Cotton on wooden stretcher, 20 × 25 cm
PFN01579
Indrė Šerpytytė
Renewal. From the series From.Between.To
2018
Cotton on wooden stretcher, 22 × 34 cm
PFN01593
Indrė Šerpytytė was born in Lithuania in 1983. She studied at the University of Brighton and the Royal College of Art, London. Šerpytytė’s work has been exhibited internationally. Recent solo exhibitions include CAC, Vilnius (2017); Parafin, London (2016); Still House Group, New York (2016); the Museum of Contemporary Art, Krakow (2015); Ffotogallery, Cardiff (2013); and the Photographers Association, London (2011). Important recent group exhibitions include ‘Memory Matters’, Skissernas Museum, Lund (2018); Riga Biennial of Contemporary Art, Riga, Latvia (2018); ‘Undersong’, KIM?, Riga (2018); Daegu Photo Biennial, South Korea (2017); ‘Age of Terror: Art after 9/11’, Imperial War Museum, London (2018); ‘Ocean of Images: New Photography 2015’, Museum of Modern Art, New York (2015); ‘Conflict, Time, Photography’, Tate Modern, London (2014) and Museum Folkwang, Essen (2014-15); and the National Gallery, Vilnius (2013). In 2018, Šerpytytė was awarded the Grain Photography Hub Commission and will exhibit at the Rugby Art Gallery and Museum in May 2019.
Publications
Vitamin T:
Threads and Textiles in Contemporary Art
Published by Phaidon
2019. 304 pp., 29 × 25 cm
Hardback
ISBN 9780714876610
Further Information
Issuu Exhibition Catalogue (Free)
Parafin produce a digital catalogue for each exhibition available to view and download on Issuu.