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Exhibition view Galerija Vartai, Vilnius, 2024.
Photo by Lukas Mykolaitis

Donata Minderytė Lithuanian, b. 1991
Women Crying On Screen, 2024
drobė, aliejus / oil on canvas
150 x 138 x 2 cm
59 x 54 1/2 x 1 in
59 x 54 1/2 x 1 in
€ 4,500.00
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This painting is a part of an artistic research on visual translation done at the Vilnius Academy of Arts. The research questions whether visual translation can deviate from the usual patterns of thought associated with a primary source or original and exist as a separate and independent structure. Is it possible to present a subject, based on established clichés, for evaluation as generating new meanings about the present context? Or is the interpretative field, after all, completely constrained by pre-determined assumptions, adhering to and adding to already established cultural codes, and only further reinforcing their legitimacy? If one were to describe the matter from a retrospective point of view, then the image of the woman crying on screen constructed for the male gaze, translated into a contemporary painting and painted by a woman - is one complicated case for visual translation.
Donata Minderytė (b. 1991, Lithuania) is an artist currently living and working in Vilnius. She graduated from the Painting Department of the Vilnius Academy of Arts, obtaining an MA in 2016. Using the concept of visual translation, Minderytė analyzes significant changes in an image as it is transferred from one medium to another. Donata Minderytė has held solo exhibitions at the Vartai Gallery and Gallery Meno Niša in Vilnius and participated in multiple group shows in Lithuania, Austria and the UK. She is also enrolled in an Art PhD programme at the Vilnius Academy of Arts. Her works have been included in various museum collections, such as Kiasma (Helsinki), MOCAK (Kraków), the Noewe Foundation (Vilnius), and Mo Museum (Vilnius).