Editorial at RIGA CONTEMPORARY
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Editorial is pleased to participate in Riga Contemporary, an inaugural contemporary art fair on a friendly scale, which is set to take place at Hanzas Perons in Riga from 10 to 13 July 2025. Editorial’s stand at Riga Contemporary will be No 6.
Editorial will present two artists, Ona Juciutė and Sallamari Rantala, whose work responds to today’s issues of overproduction, the consumption of resources, and how material culture shapes memories and ideas. The oeuvre of both artists is based on a deep understanding of the influence and consequences of human activity, while being sustainable and environmentally conscious.
The Vilnius-based Lithuanian artist Ona Juciūtė is interested in the memory load carried by objects, and the traces of gestures left in the material itself. As a sculptor, she pays particular attention to manual craftsmanship in the manufacturing process, as well as to the textures and reliefs of the material. Juciūtė creates works that embody a gesture and a practice, a span of time and a process, without asserting any symbolic meaning or imposing a hierarchy of values. Her approach embraces circularity, the idea that everything can be transformed, erased, and even recreated.
Sallamari Rantala is a Finnish artist currently living and working in Vilnius. Rantala’s series of works express her observations about our material culture and habits within it: what it means to live with knowledge about human-centric extractive activities, but also to recognise the attraction and joy of both raw and processed material things. Her work crystallises from observing the movement and transformation of materials in her surroundings. The visual, material and conceptual themes in her work centre on buildings, their interiors, and everyday objects, as well as the sands by roadside ditches, willows that have sprung up in the place of fallen forests, and other changes driven by both the environment and human activity. Combining drawing and material-shaping techniques, she often creates relief-like works that blur the boundary between surface and three-dimensionality, creating hints of compositions and stories hidden within their reciprocal relationship.
More about the artists:
Ona Juciūtė is a Vilnius-based artist, curator and scenographer. She has held solo exhibitions at the Editorial project space in Vilnius, the Contemporary Art Centre Derry~Londonderry in the UK, and La Halle, Centre d’art, Pont-en-Royans, in France. She has also presented her work in group exhibitions at the MOCAK Museum in Krakow, the Contemporary Art Centre in Vilnius, the parallel programme of the Istanbul Biennale, the National Gallery of Art in Vilnius, Kaunas Artists House, and several other art institutions in Vilnius, including the Atletika Gallery, the Rupert Gallery, and the Swallow project space. In 2021, her sculptures were included in the permanent collection of the Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art in Helsinki. She is a recipient of the JCDecaux Prize 2016, as well as a prize established by Aleksandra Kasuba, an American artist of Lithuanian origin.
Sallamari Rantala has held solo exhibitions at Editorial in Vilnius (together with Marta Frėjutė), Sic Space in Helsinki (together with Marta Frėjutė), Å-galleria in Turku in Finland, Våga se Space in Stockholm, and Verpėjos in Marcinkonys in Lithuania. She has also participated in group exhibitions at the CAC in Vilnius, VAA Titanikas in Vilnius, and the Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania in Vilnius, among others. She was a winner of the JCDecaux Prize in 2020.
Founded in 2016 by Vitalija Jasaitė and Neringa Černiauskaitė in the heart of Vilnius’ Old Town, and rooted in the idea of an independent space, neither institutional, fully commercial, nor academic, Editorial quickly became a vital ground for artistic experimentation and a platform for artists emerging on the international scene. Editorial builds bridges between local and transnational practices, through exhibitions, performances, talks and screenings.
Participation in the fair is financed by the Lithuanian Council for Culture and Vilnius Municipality.
More information: https://kim.lv/en/riga-contemporary-laikmetigas-makslas-mese/
Editorial will present two artists, Ona Juciutė and Sallamari Rantala, whose work responds to today’s issues of overproduction, the consumption of resources, and how material culture shapes memories and ideas. The oeuvre of both artists is based on a deep understanding of the influence and consequences of human activity, while being sustainable and environmentally conscious.
The Vilnius-based Lithuanian artist Ona Juciūtė is interested in the memory load carried by objects, and the traces of gestures left in the material itself. As a sculptor, she pays particular attention to manual craftsmanship in the manufacturing process, as well as to the textures and reliefs of the material. Juciūtė creates works that embody a gesture and a practice, a span of time and a process, without asserting any symbolic meaning or imposing a hierarchy of values. Her approach embraces circularity, the idea that everything can be transformed, erased, and even recreated.
Sallamari Rantala is a Finnish artist currently living and working in Vilnius. Rantala’s series of works express her observations about our material culture and habits within it: what it means to live with knowledge about human-centric extractive activities, but also to recognise the attraction and joy of both raw and processed material things. Her work crystallises from observing the movement and transformation of materials in her surroundings. The visual, material and conceptual themes in her work centre on buildings, their interiors, and everyday objects, as well as the sands by roadside ditches, willows that have sprung up in the place of fallen forests, and other changes driven by both the environment and human activity. Combining drawing and material-shaping techniques, she often creates relief-like works that blur the boundary between surface and three-dimensionality, creating hints of compositions and stories hidden within their reciprocal relationship.
More about the artists:
Ona Juciūtė is a Vilnius-based artist, curator and scenographer. She has held solo exhibitions at the Editorial project space in Vilnius, the Contemporary Art Centre Derry~Londonderry in the UK, and La Halle, Centre d’art, Pont-en-Royans, in France. She has also presented her work in group exhibitions at the MOCAK Museum in Krakow, the Contemporary Art Centre in Vilnius, the parallel programme of the Istanbul Biennale, the National Gallery of Art in Vilnius, Kaunas Artists House, and several other art institutions in Vilnius, including the Atletika Gallery, the Rupert Gallery, and the Swallow project space. In 2021, her sculptures were included in the permanent collection of the Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art in Helsinki. She is a recipient of the JCDecaux Prize 2016, as well as a prize established by Aleksandra Kasuba, an American artist of Lithuanian origin.
Sallamari Rantala has held solo exhibitions at Editorial in Vilnius (together with Marta Frėjutė), Sic Space in Helsinki (together with Marta Frėjutė), Å-galleria in Turku in Finland, Våga se Space in Stockholm, and Verpėjos in Marcinkonys in Lithuania. She has also participated in group exhibitions at the CAC in Vilnius, VAA Titanikas in Vilnius, and the Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania in Vilnius, among others. She was a winner of the JCDecaux Prize in 2020.
Founded in 2016 by Vitalija Jasaitė and Neringa Černiauskaitė in the heart of Vilnius’ Old Town, and rooted in the idea of an independent space, neither institutional, fully commercial, nor academic, Editorial quickly became a vital ground for artistic experimentation and a platform for artists emerging on the international scene. Editorial builds bridges between local and transnational practices, through exhibitions, performances, talks and screenings.
Participation in the fair is financed by the Lithuanian Council for Culture and Vilnius Municipality.
More information: https://kim.lv/en/riga-contemporary-laikmetigas-makslas-mese/
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