-mixed media drawing series and installations-
2019-ongoing
‘Some number of drawings gather on the ground. Organic forms push to the edge of paper compliantly bending as the watercolor dries. Islands, plants, half of an animal (maybe), watery depths or airy spaces abound. Julija Paškevičiūtė offers a landscape of shifting forms in her work It turns out that color is the mediator between hard-edged categories and the nothingness (which is the everythingness) of being. The title is a quote from Michael Taussig’s What Color is the Sacred?
The year-long process which lead to this installation blurs the hard-edges between each component drawing, allowing Paškevičiūtė to resist the stillness of completion. Each drawing flows into the next. It turns out that color is the mediator between hard-edged categories and the nothingness (which is the everythingness) of being is a work of art which remains persistently unfinished. Just as the paper settles in response to the application of watercolor, the work adjusts to its new grounds. Paškevičiūtė’s keen interest in organic forms is clear in this work. Here she presents her own nature, one that grows on its own impulse.’
The year-long process which lead to this installation blurs the hard-edges between each component drawing, allowing Paškevičiūtė to resist the stillness of completion. Each drawing flows into the next. It turns out that color is the mediator between hard-edged categories and the nothingness (which is the everythingness) of being is a work of art which remains persistently unfinished. Just as the paper settles in response to the application of watercolor, the work adjusts to its new grounds. Paškevičiūtė’s keen interest in organic forms is clear in this work. Here she presents her own nature, one that grows on its own impulse.’
-text by Albinas Teperis, from the Shunted Sculptures Fleeting Words catalogue, www.shuntedsculpturesfleetingwords.com