Kristina Inciuraite

Kristina Inčiūraitė employs different types of media to create photography, objects, videos, video installations, experimental films, performances and audio projects. Her works offer a rather sensitive look into the current surroundings. The artist pays a lot of attention to the analysis of identity and its transformation in different social areas. When exploring the undefined or hidden and constantly changing identities, she introduces critical attitude towards the current sociopolitical problems such as the homogenic power manifestations, negative approach to gender differences or hierarchized social relationship. The feminist topics are also relevant for the artist. She addresses the woman's position in the society, yet her works rarely feature a feminine figure, avoiding the tangibility of the subject in question or the voyeuristic gaze of the spectator. In her audiovisual works, the artist emphasises the voiceover which moves and provides meaning for the static images. Even though Inčiūraitė critically analyses the current everyday topics, she conveys them in a subtle manner, avoiding straightforward and linear storytelling. Instead, she rather tends to explore the fragile boundary between the reality and fiction, and opens the intimate space for experiences, where the liquidity of time can be felt.

Kristina Inčiūraitė (1974) – an interdisciplinary artist and a member of the Lithuanian Interdisciplinary Artists' Association (since 1999). She has lived in Ireland since 2020. Inčiūraitė received the Visual Arts Bursary Award (2021-2022) and the Agility Award (2022) from the Arts Council of Ireland. In addition, the artist was awarded the Lithuanian State Scholarship for Culture and Art Creators (2006, 2013, 2016, 2018). Her works have been exhibited in numerous venues, including the National Gallery of Art, the MO Museum and the Contemporary Art Centre in Vilnius, the MAXXI National Museum of 21st Century Arts in Rome, the National Art Museum of China in Beijing, the National Art Museum of Ukraine in Kiev, KUMU Art Museum in Tallinn, the Oi Futuro Cultural Center in Rio de Janeiro, Gdansk contemporary art center Laznia,the Kalmar Museum of Art in Kalmar, the Budapest Hall of Art in Budapest Mucsarnok, etc.