Currently lives and works in: Iceland
Areas of interest: Textiles, biomaterials, food art
Why are you a part of “Magic Carpets”: To learn, teach and co-create!
“Magic Carpets” project
The project for the 2025 is in progress
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Past projects
How Long Will It Keep? (2024)
Type: Installation, food and textiles
Where the Roots Grow Deep
Ubiskes 3 Residency, Ubiske, Lithuania
Materials: Spherified alginate and agar-agar, jars, wood, silk, and cotton
Glass jars filled with algae-based “tears” and a range of flavors offer a sensory reflection of Gudrita’s identities. Each flavor serves as a fragment of the artist’s own experiences-personal and collective traumas – tangibly shared with visitors during tastings.
The art piece explores identity and belonging through a rural Lithuanian lens. Tiny glass jars evoke ancient Roman lachrymatory tear bottles, contrasting with traditional preservation methods.
In the distance, delicate fluttering of silk -with its hues – draws the eye, but hints at a deeper, unsettling truth as one draws nearer. This interplay reflects themes of neglect and preservation, inviting contemplation on the choices we make about what to shield and what to let drift away.
Visitors were invited to savor the “tears.”
What inspires you as an artist? Everyday life, from nature to manmade things, such as languages and their visual usage; memory, ritual, and the overlooked materials of daily life particularly food, waste, and textiles. My nomadic upbringing and experiences across cultures deeply influence my work, as do the relationships between ecology, spirituality, and collective experience. I often explore the tactile, symbolic, and transformative aspects of matter.
What do you think is the purpose of art? To connect. To remember. To question. Art, for me, is a way to make the invisible visible, to bring forward what has been forgotten, repressed, or undervalued. It’s also a powerful tool for creating shared rituals and shaping new ways of being in relationship with ourselves, others, and the world around us.
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