News
2023-10-16
New artwork in the collection – Milda Lembertaitė's sculpture "Give Yourself a New Life"
The Lewben Art Foundation has acquired new artwork to its collection – Milda Lembertaitė's sculpture "Give Yourself a New Life" (2021). The artwork joined the collection and arrived at the new "D9 Artsy Office" directly from the "Editorial" space (Latako St. 3, Vilnius), where the exhibition "Incantations" by two young-generation artists, Milda Lembertaitė and Anna Ruth, was taking place.
Milda Lembertaitė was born in Klaipėda, currently lives and works in London. Lembertaitė completed her MA in Visual Arts at Chelsea College of Arts and BA in Performance Design and Practice at Saint Martin's College of Art and Design, London.
Lembertaitė’s hybrid sculptures are like protagonists with their own character and unique stories to tell. The trees and branches that form the basis of these sculptures were found and collected by the artist in the urban suburbs of London, where these trees absorb car pollution, cleanse toxins, and heal. By combining these found organic formations with synthetic materials, gluing false eyelashes on their surfaces or attaching prosthetic limbs, the artist blurs the boundaries between the living and the inert, the natural and the artificial. Is it us looking at the tree, or is it the tree that observes us? A fragment of obsidian stone, integrated into almost every sculpture, is like an organic precursor of the shimmering contemporary technological screen, a reflection of and a portal to all of our modern desires.
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