Online Exhibition #7 Aukse Miliukaite

The online exhibition presents fourteen newly created works by the promising young Lithuanian artist Aukse Miliukaite. The featured works, including two paintings and twelve drawings, relate to and reflect upon one another, illustrating the never-ending cycle of Aukse’s artistic approach and current working period—projection, reproduction, and creation. “In my creational project I create a space, where mirages, utopian situations are born just like in the red photography room, where I develop other mirages. When I paint I analyze my teachers’ and culture influence that affects my art. By using postproduction I repeat, appropriate, destroy or recreate previously made artworks. By using collage and diary method I create situations, where cultural figures mix with my close friends and family. Personal stories or states of mind lead the union of artefacts. Artefacts themselves become the characters in my stories.“ (A.M.) Aukse Miliukaite’s body of work opens up a new world of images to the viewer by combining fragments from different epochs, styles, and contexts. In the works presented here, the artist’s interest in composing new pieces from pre-existing imagery is extended through a focus on her own creative process. By producing the twelve drawings after completing the two paintings, the artist examines and reveals the underlying structure of her work, in which collage, reproduction, recreation, and postproduction are essential components. “Not authenticity, nor semblance of original work are important but the reason why works or their fragments created in the past are revived. I research how information that is in the memory is deformed and becomes works of postproduction.“ (A.M.) This exhibition illustrates how narratives can emerge as a kind of game. The twelve drawings relate to and reflect upon one another, demonstrating the continuous cycle of Aukse Miliukaite’s artistic approach—projection, reproduction, and creation. Her body of work opens up a new world of images by incorporating fragments from various epochs, styles, and contexts. The artist’s engagement with pre-existing imagery involves a playful dialogue with references ranging from painters such as Claude Monet to contemporary visual culture, including Stanley Kubrick’s cinematic masterpiece Shining.