Laima Oržekauskienė's work is a subtle textile poetry. There is more to the fabric than we think. When it enters life, it carries with it a part of the everyday and reveals what is in the parallel or sacred plane. Tapestries make up the bulk of her work. A digital photo image is transferred onto a handmade fabric. Permanence, the ritual action, is thus contacted with impermanence, the here and now moment. The artist herself says: "I find it interesting to observe how the camera suspends the unedited present moment and preserves in the frame its total temporality. Extracted from real everyday life, it is digitally transferred with documentary precision onto a hand-woven tapestry and stamped into it, recreating again a life-size image of lived reality." Oržekauskienė's tapestries are based on abstract archaic (hooked cross) patterns, elements of the cosmic system. In the deep spacetime, where time seems to begin and end, a multitude of oscillating planes open up. All that appears and becomes accessible to direct experience is transformed into a transparent virtuality of ornaments. The artist "illuminates" the individuality of a tape, a shawl, a garment, a cover, a pillowcase, a patchwork. In the portraits, she detects the sacredness of being, linking individual existence to the totality of being. Water, wine, milk, as signs of the circulation of life, become references to ritual sacrifice and a primordial reality that requires rituals of sacrifice. And finally, on the surface of the tapestries themselves, one can see the photographically detailed marks of the bending of the materials, the folds, creases, folds, seams, stitches, collisions... Once again, the all-encompassing abstractness and the infinite depth of the surface reappear. The planes merge, float on top of each other. Meanings float, encouraging the gaze to rise and descend, to dwell in the depth and the surface. Titanikas (Maironio g. 3, Vilnius) will be on view at the VAA exhibition halls until 28 December.