"The paintings in the exhibition are the result of my imagination, dreams, intuition and years of recording my environment. Each motif has a basis in the real world, but in my paintings I do not seek to replicate the images that surround me, but rather to find ways of discovering the similarity between the brushstroke on the picture plane and the object depicted. Any style of painting requires a certain abstraction, even in hyperrealism - the complexity of the structure of the paintings is finite, and the complexity of the reality depicted is infinite. So the question is, how do we represent reality? Where to put the point of abstraction in the visible image? In the modernist tradition, artists did not confuse nature with painting. Nature is observed, but not copied - it is expressed in the painting as signs that we discover through careful observation of the world around us. If the discovery of a sign in a painting is successful, then the painting will also be successful. I follow this principle in my paintings - I abstract space and objects to a flat form and colour harmony. The horizon becomes a line separating the two colour areas. Anything that is not necessary to reveal the essence of the motif is rejected. Through the play of colours, shapes and sizes, I create a calm and stabilised reality of the painting which is a distant echo of the world around me. The title of the exhibition answers the question: 'Where does the sign come from, where does the painting begin? - From a Conversation with...' (Lukas Marciulevičius) will be on view at Šiauliai Art Gallery (Vilniaus g. 245) until 16 March 2024.