Audrius Janušonis: "A few years ago, my friend R. D. wrote poetically about my work: 'a gesture is a movement frozen in clay, a dance, danced by the artist in the studio.'" The idea proved to be accurate and apt at the time, and eventually inspired other dances and new projections of them. Lately, I have been sculpting clay a little less. I have been using thread to create a new pattern for drawing from life. Then I drew, made monotypes, engraved stoneware tiles, cut them, rejoined them... I went round and round. The exhibition is about the line, which is both a means and an end, a fixed trajectory of movement, the silhouette of the object and the twist of the plot, the form that is the content. Different materials dictate their own rules. The engraved black tile is reminiscent of tombstone bricks and also has stylistic links to the world of tattoos. Not surprisingly, the way they are done is the same: a needle piercing a line. Monotypes are relatively soft traces of trajectories of movement. I initially used wooden constructions as a means of displaying ceramics, but later they became independent, even useful - a kind of small architecture. For the vases, I used the silhouette of a glass vase given as a wedding present. Ceramic figures, heads, birds - I'm always looking for a new approach to old themes; it's an endeavour, not an end state." The exhibition will be on view at the Artists' Union Gallery (Vokiečių g. 2, Vilnius) until 7 December.