Neringa Poškutė-Jukumienė, 2020, Lithuania

Живе…

I present my enamel artwork Žive … from the series “Borders”, which speaks to today’s realities and trends: the warning yellow and black, white and red stripes are now everywhere – in public transport, in shops, in offices, etc. However, however much we may be bothered by the restrictions and prohibitions of this state of emergency and quarantine, we secretly enjoy the apocalyptic excitement with which we have been infected by the multitude of popular books, films, news trailers and even computer games that seductively depict the end of the world and the disasters that are so popular. We dive headlong into the dictatorial prescriptions of limits and prohibitions that we cannot comprehend, which we resist, criticise and react to. This year’s events in Belarus and the feeling of the Freedom Road/colour/anxiety – a memory reminiscent of values. I was also on the Baltic Way, but I understood very little.
Today: I wrap my neck in white/red/white, put on white and white/red. All day long, every hour, I put on white…then red…