Kristina Alisauskaite

Kristina Alisauskaite is a painter of the young generation and an active participant of group exhibitions who has also held several solo shows. She is a finalist of the competition “Young Painter’s Prize”, and the winner of the audience award (2013). In 2014, Kristina received an individual state grant of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Lithuania. The young painter’s talent was also acclaimed on the international art scene. In 2013, she was among the ten winners of the international Saatchi Online Showdown Competition Painted Faces. In the late autumn of 2014, the book titled 100 Painters of Tomorrowrepresenting a hundred most promising painters of our times, published by Thames & Hudson, was launched in London and New York. Alisauskaite was the only Lithuanian artist to be included in the book.
A distinct feature of Kristina’s work is laconicism. Alisauskaite’s paintings are minimalistic and sparing. They are most often devoid of any obvious hints of action, but this emptiness is eloquent. Each composition is as if a random fragment of history, a film shot, when a narrative becomes frozen for a brief moment and then resumes after a pause. Yet, Alisauskaite does not create any narrative. But the depicted situations are so cinematographic, seen many times and recognisable, that narratives are easily created from personal experiences in the viewer’s mind. Making use of the insights of psychoanalysis, Alisauskaite analyses the universality of these human experiences and its expressions through certain symbolic images. The abstract space of her paintings and objects conveyed in a generalised form are reminiscent of dreams, images formed in subconsciousness, and obscure shapes of familiar places and people, which only remain in your memory. The elements persistently appearing in the cycles of her paintings allow us to suspect the traumatic nature of haunting experiences and recurring – each time in a somewhat different form – dreams.

Submitted by The Rooster Gallery