On March 6, the exhibition “The House in the Shadow of a Magnolia” of paintings by Ara Radvilė opens at the Užupis Art Incubator Gallery, inviting visitors to step into a space where the human being is no longer merely a figure or a portrait. Here, the human becomes architecture – a temporary house where memories, fears, experiences, and forms of growth accumulate.
In Ara Radvilė’s paintings, the body transforms into a constantly reconstructed structure: cavities open in chests, gardens dwell within wombs, surfaces crack to reveal inner constructions. These are not illustrations, but inner maps, inviting the viewer to navigate not a physical, but a personal territory – where the outside becomes the inside.
The works presented in the exhibition reveal the walls we build in order to survive. They protect, yet they also confine. Monumental bodies fracture here not out of weakness, but out of growth – out of the need to surpass what was once necessary but has become too narrow.
Beneath the shadow of the magnolia, a field of the subconscious unfolds – a space before systems and definitions. Swans, mermaids, and animal silhouettes begin to speak. The bright hall invites visitors into a state before form, while the dark hall presents shadow as a phase of transformation, where collapse becomes the beginning of a new structure.
We invite you to experience the exhibition as a journey through inner architecture – where form is never final, and the body remains an open, constantly rewritten space.
Ara Radvilė Juozapaitytė is a young generation painter, Užupis Art Incubator resident who holds a Master’s degree in Scenography from the Vilnius Academy of Arts. For the past five years, she has been actively developing her creative practice in the field of visual arts. Her work is characterized by a clear and refined color composition and figuration, in which the female body becomes an archetypal symbol. The central axis of her practice is light as a vital force – shaping not only the visual space, but also conveying inner human states.
The exhibition is accompanied by Saturday meetings with the artist: https://www.facebook.com/share/18AjnVaikr/?mibextid=wwXIfr
Curator: Gretė Ona Tvarkūnaitė
Sound in the exhibition: Godo Yorke
Opening: March 6, 7 PM
Exhibition dates: March 6 – April 11
Gallery opening hours: Wed–Sat, 1–6 PM
Užupio street 2A
Event Venue
Užupio Meno Inkubatorius , Užupio street 2A, Vilnius, Lithuania
