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Benas Matijošaitis is a Lithuanian artist whose work examines the afterlife of images in contemporary visual culture. Working primarily in painting, he uses photographs, printed matter, digital media, and his own image archive as points of departure, investigating how visual information is detached from its original context and transformed as it circulates through different visual environments.
Rather than treating images as fixed records of reality, Matijošaitis approaches them as unstable carriers of information, continually altered as they move between analogue and digital media. His paintings hover between recognition and disappearance, allowing familiar fragments to emerge from fields of colour, light, and digital noise. In doing so, they consider what remains of an image once the meaning that first produced it has begun to fade.
Working between Kaunas and Vilnius, Benas Matijošaitis completed a BA in Painting at the Vilnius Academy of Arts and is currently pursuing an MA in Photography and Media Art at the same institution. Alongside his artistic practice, he has curated exhibitions including Ruja (2023) and Žarija (2024).
Riga Contemporary 2026
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