Memory in Jonkutė's works is understood as a search for an unknown place, for identity, for the self. The artist develops this theme by drawing on her grandparents' stories of forced wandering and displacement, when her relatives were forcibly transported to Siberia, where her mother was born. The artist's grandfather remained there, and she is still haunted by the unknown - what does that land look like, as told by relatives? It is like the promise of a place you have not been, of experiencing a time you have not lived in: this is what the artist is looking for in a waking landscape, where the image is seen as if through peripheral vision, as if it keeps slipping out of view and remaining somewhere in the past, or appears to be absent altogether, only imaginary. While thinking about going to that territory one day, today she realises that the Russian aggression in Ukraine has already made Siberia a place she will never set foot in. The dream of seeing and experiencing that ancestral land will not be fulfilled. Now the only witness left to this Earth is her mother. In her work, Jonkutė proposes to touch the crumbling of time with her gaze, its disappearance, blurring the visual to a barely graspable image that is no longer in the viewer, but only in the thickening layers of memory. The exhibition presents paintings that, by "awakening" the former reality on the surface of the canvas, mark its fading traces and become a continuation of the ever-passing present in time - the picture plane merges in the imagination and drowns in timeless vision. The landscapes, which tend to appear before the viewer, slip from the past into the future, as if you were looking through the window of a passive train dissecting time, and flow into different presentities. The Arka Gallery (Aušros vartų g. 7, Vilnius) will be open until 1 June.