This is the first solo exhibition of the artist Gabriele Zemaityte. Curated by Rafaela Sousa, this show offers a reflection on the creative process of the artist over the past decade.

MONITORING SEA CHANGE title is partly borrowed from the title of one of the works on show and refers to an English aphorism for any major transformation. Both ecological and sociological concerns are emphasized within the works in this show.

In a constant attempt to reflect on continuous changes in human relation to their surroundings and to each other, Gabriele draws on Conceptual Art traditions and Postmodern ideas of re-appropriation as well as the ways in which meaning is both captured, generated or even imposed. Through a broad range of media, including text, imagery, software, objects, and spatial installation the artist shifts aspects of singular observations and takes them to a new frame of reference.

Some works within a show are meant to exist as tongue-in-cheek comments, while others rely solely on speculation. One of the projects presented in the show is an online based program saturated with words of negative connotations, that is meant to exist as a commentary on the implications of hyper-personalised language (Bad Day, 2018), while in another work on display, the artist presents discarded NO2 (commonly used as a quasi-legal high in UK and around the world) cartridges, as if they were objects of value (How to Forage for Cream Cartridges, 2020).

Recurring concerns in Zemaityte’s work include digital technologies, social behaviours, mythology, ideas of Artificial Intelligence, and human sensitivity towards Others and nature. In this retrospective show, in the country where she was raised, Gabriele invites the visitor to walk through a selection of past projects from her oeuvre and ponder how human subjects position themselves and their technologies within the ever-shifting environments.

Gabriele Zemaityte was born in Alytus, Lithuania and graduated from Vilnius Justinas Vienozinskis Art School (2010). The artist completed her BA in Fine Art, Middlesex University (London, UK) where she received the Dean’s Award for Outstanding Contribution to the School and is currently attending a post-graduate programme at Goldsmiths, University of London (London, UK). Gabriele has participated in national and international group exhibitions as Covideo19 (2021), Access (2021), For the Love of Avocados (2020), Land Art Exhibitions in Vilnius Botanical Gardens (2010, 2016, 2018) and together with artist collective ‘The Common’ presented in a symposium at the ICA, London (2014). The artist currently lives and works in London.

The exhibition is partly sponsored by Lithuanian Artist Association and Vilnius J. Vienožinskis Art School.