Fans of the artist's work will also recognise biblical motifs in her drawings, where saints appear as passers-by and vice versa. The rest of the exhibition will reveal the beauty of the freedom of exploration - here, a thick ink line swings between landscape and abstraction, a few pencil strokes capture the impression of a faraway land, a coloured pastel creates a stone portrait or, on shimmering paper, the smudges of a pensive head are right before your eyes. Perhaps many will remember the paintings of the 1990s. The Kafkaesque figure and huge eyes of the character - a watchman at the Vilnius Old Town barrier (Rain Man, 1990-1992). The various plastic expressions and surprises only confirm that anything can happen on a piece of paper, and the observation of a drawing is always intriguing because of the potential for open thinking and seeing, which makes such an exhibition an adventure not only for the viewers but also for the organisers. Especially when a longer period of work is covered, in this case several decades. The drawings of dated and date-lost series testify to a waiting for insight and meaning. Perhaps for the painter, drawing not only helps to train the hand, to awaken the imagination, but also becomes a form of vigilance, a form of the precept "watch" (Mk13:33-37). The exhibition will run until 28 September at the Vilnius Centre for Graphic Arts' gallery "Kairė-dešinė" (Latako str. 3, Vilnius).
Sigita Maslauskaitė-Mažylienė: "From the vigils" Sessions