the diptych night came slowly is about the sky, its colors, and home. i observe how the sky communicates with the earth, especially as we approach the summer solstice. i look at the evening sky, how slowly it darkens, how bright blue it remains even after the sun has long set.
when I was closer to the equator, day would turn into black night quickly, like a coin flipping into darkness. however, in june in lithuania, night comes slowly. this work is about silence, observation, and the colors around us.
i chose a small format because I depicted simple, often overlooked everyday life.
i wanted the work to be like a pause, inviting me to come closer, fall into the color, and fully live the warm June nights.
10 cm x 10 cm
Gouache on wood
2026
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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