Frame Of Mind

 

I was born in Vilnius, Lithuania, in 1991, and while my formal education taught me technique, what truly shaped me was the drive to break boundaries - between image and object, self and persona, critique and embodiment. For me, art isn’t something I simply make; it’s something I choose to live. From 2021 to 2023, I created Emerging Influencer, a long-form performance that played out entirely on Instagram. For two years, I became a fictional influencer, navigating the platform’s logic and aesthetics while asking: Who decides what is authentic? What happens when the performance never stops? My Instagram account was a hybrid space - part critique, part character - where identity itself became a performance shaped by likes, filters, and endless scrolls.This exploration spilled into my paintings. In my first solo show, In My ??? Era, in Vilnius, I embraced the chaotic visual language of digital culture - bold colors, layered textures, memes, and Gen-Z self-expression. The title spoke to identity as something fluid, sometimes absurd, always performed. Later, I showed little Grand spells in Riga, where paintings and sound collided to create a mystical, data-overloaded ritual. That tension between chaos and spirituality fascinates me. I believe there’s beauty in disorder - each fragment, interruption, and impulse reflecting how we live today.In 2025, I took that fascination further with Underneath, a site-specific show inside a cosmetic surgery clinic in Vilnius. Instead of rejecting beauty culture, I immersed myself in it—physically and conceptually. Having had plastic surgery myself, I brought my personal story into the work not as irony, but as truth. The clinic became a space to explore transformation, agency, and the fragile line between artifice and authenticity. That same year, I embodied a new iteration of Olialia - a bold, glamorous Lithuanian brand from the early 2000s - during Monaco Art Week. Collaborating with Justinas Tomkus, I became the 21st-century “Olialia girl,” blending hyper-femininity with critical awareness. The show wasn’t about mockery but recontextualization - asking who controls glamour and what it means to reclaim it. My engagement with Olialia has grown beyond exhibitions. I helped launch Olialia TV, a digital media platform; Olialia Rosé, a boutique wine brand wrapped in art-inspired packaging; and Olialia Gallery Monaco, linking Baltic art with luxury. Some call these branding; I see them as new artistic platforms that collapse boundaries between high art and pop culture, lifestyle, and ideology.