Ieva Trinkūnaitė's works are like pages of a notebook, where clippings from old magazines for science promotion, cinema, travel magazines, tourist brochures, and advertisements are pasted in a peculiar order, some nostalgically yellowed, others glowing with the spicy colours of disco. Large-format sheets are interspersed with fragmented pictorial narratives that weave together landscape elements, animal figures and isolated attributes of the human world. In her works, Trinkūnaitė sensitively explores the nature of proximity, often identifying herself personally, discovering commonalities between different life forms, while at the same time raising broader questions of the relationship between man and nature, opening up topical psychological, social, geopolitical and ecological aspects. The artist observes and depicts the objects and subjects of her works with special care, aptly reflecting emotions, rendering morphology in detail, emphasising the texture of surfaces, sometimes hyperbolising it, making it the dominant element of the work, as if wrapping the subjects in swirls of leaves, fur, feathers and hair. The impression of tactility is reinforced by the artist's method of working - the tools are usually applied and rubbed (or, rather, smoothed) onto the sheets with the fingers."
