COME, PLEASE (2024)
Group exhibition "Pressure Points", NYUAD Gallery Project Space, Abu Dhabi, UAE, 2024.05
a reflection on the city and its desires, loneliness, advertising, human labor, this project is based on the ‘massage-spa’ cards, one of the only objects found on the surveilled streets of abu dhabi. the accumulation of words, colours and symbols found on these cards is extended and played with to create a walk-in, deconstructed card, that symbolises a gateway to the hidden underbelly of the city.
Danutė Vaitekūnaitė (b. 1998, Šiauliai, Lithuania) is an artist and educator whose work seeks to reveal invisible systems that exploit human vulnerability. Her worldbuilding practice combines installation, painting, sculpture, writing, design, video, and performance. Revealing the mundane and the overlooked, she focuses on relationships between objects, human and non-human.
Vaitekūnaitė holds an MFA in Art and Media from New York University Abu Dhabi as a Tarek Al Ghoussein Fellow and a BA in Art from La Haute École des Arts du Rhin in Strasbourg. Her work has been exhibited in the UAE, France and Lithuania, including Jameel Arts Center, 421 Arts Campus, NYUAD Art Gallery, La Chaufferie, Syndicat Potentiel, Šiauliai Art Gallery and Pragiedruliai. She collaborated on spoken word, theatre and cinema productions in Tunisia, the UAE and France. Danutė currently works as an educator at Šiauliai Art Gallery.
danute.vaitek@gmail.com
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