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Janina Valančiūtė’s Drawings Exhibition “Kaleidoscope of Being”

Each of us chooses the closest and most accessible way and means of expressing ourselves. I mostly use words and images. Sounds are also a big influence, music inspires me.
I started drawing as a child and never stopped, but I did draw with shorter or longer pauses. I tried different techniques, I went to a ceramics studio, I made linen prints.
The first solo exhibition of drawings and linen carvings was held at the Lithuanian Medical Library in 1998,
I have also held exhibitions in libraries, sanatoriums and cultural centres in Klaipėda, Joniškis, Varėna, Druskininkai.
For this exhibition, I have selected works in charcoal and pastel from the series “Fragile Existence” and “Grey Cloud”.
We live in an excess of things, feelings, emotions. We are confused in our values, we don’t know what we want anymore, we don’t understand not only others but also ourselves. Where will this lead?
The exhibition invites you to pause and, first of all, to look through the kaleidoscope of your emotions.

Janina Valančiūtė