Ingrida Mockutė-Pocienė: "The Rose Effect"

Ingrida Mockutė-Pocienė: "The Rose Effect"

Åpning Torsdag 10.07 kl. 17.00
Øvrige åpningstider: Onsdag-fredag 12-16

Utstillingen varer til 23.07.

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By autobiographically and artistically exploring my traumatic experience, I step as if into a dark forest. The artistic research The Rose Effect is deeply personal to me — yet not only personal. Through this work, I raise questions related to socially stigmatized topics: sexual violence, mental illness, psychological and physical abuse, and suicide.
As is often the case for those affected by emotional trauma, I found myself caught in a spiral of moral decline, accompanied by a sense of isolation and marginalization. During this research, I reveal — to myself and to you — scenes of gang rape, which I never initially intended to analyze. Yet working with autobiographical trauma gave me the courage to speak. Two central themes emerged: sexual violence and mental health — the very core of this exhibition.
I’ve long asked myself why it feels so important to speak about this experience. I believe it is because prolonged silence and hidden shame suffocate from within — they suppress and re-traumatize. Silence perpetuates violence. And if I can break this silence through my work, perhaps it means I didn’t go through it all for nothing.
— Ingrida Mockutė

Biography
Ingrida Mockutė-Pocienė is an interdisciplinary artist originally from Tauragė, Lithuania. She spent over a decade living in Klaipėda and is currently based in Stavanger, Norway. Her practice spans photography, video art, performance, installation, and more. She has been participating in exhibitions since 2009.
In 2021, she was granted the Artistic Creator status by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Lithuania. Since 2023, she has been a member of the Lithuanian Photographers Association.
In 2024, Ingrida earned a Master’s degree in Applied Arts from the Vilnius Academy of Arts, Telšiai Faculty. From August to October 2024, she completed an Erasmus internship at Rogaland Kunstsenter, a contemporary art center in Stavanger, Norway.
In November 2024, she presented the event “Beyond the Scars: Transforming Pain into Art”, featuring a screening and discussion of her video works The Rose Effect and Shelter, held at the Terran community in Stavanger.

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