INTERNATIONAL ART RESIDENCY EXCHANGE BETWEEN LITHUANIA AND ICELAND

September has been marked with Icelandic art in KCCC. An established partnership between Klaipėda Culturel Communication Center and The Association of Icelandic artists (SIM) art residency is a basis for Lithuanian and Icelandic artists‘ exchange. KCCC aready has deputed its team of creators consisting of five: Irma Leščinskaitė, Marius Ščerbinskas, Mikas Zabulionis, Vincenta Mikulėnaitė and Eglė Ščerbinskaitė. During the month, the artists were creating a project named „Iceland. Square root of the 13th horizon“. The result of the process will be presented in an exhibition which will be held in Iceland.

Two artists from Iceland were residing in Klaipėda, simultaneously – the painter Anna S. Gunnlaugsdóttir and the textile artist Thorey Eythorsdottir. During their residing period, creaters were working on their creative ideas.

A fundamental object of Anna Gunnlaugsdóttir paintings – a woman and her space in todays society. A construct of a woman is a starting point analyzing the object‘s connections with a surounding world under various circumstances. For example, the author highlights a long – term ostensible influence of patriarchal religion to the existence of a woman („Women and religion“, 2017). In the project „Women‘s position“ or „Space for women“, Anna queries woman‘s position in historical context, the effect of millennia long oppression to her social status, and her self – awareness. In artists works, the woman as a subject was finally established after she gave birth to her firstborn. Since then, it is a subject – matter analyzing this theme continuousely.

Anna Gunnlaugsdóttir graduated painting, graphic design, pedagogy bachelor studies in Academy of the Arts. She has been studying at Ecole des Baus Arts in Paris for one year.

Thorey Eythorsdottir has founded an art gallery „Vest“ 20 years ago in Reykjavik. She works with painting, whatercolouring, weaving and tapestry. However, she mostly works with textile. During the residency period, Thorey created a textile artwork with a specific simbolic style, which was made by combining different fragments of fabrics.