"The performance is separated from the audience by an element between the hall and the stage, called a portal. And behind the portal - the magical world of theater, the fruit of the creators' imagination. Everything is possible here - and for people to fly, and you can move to the period several hundred years ago, as if in a time machine, you can experience their dramas together with the characters, see sounds and hear images... All the arts meet in the theater, which even more than one by one, affects the feelings of the audience. The director, composer, playwright, scenographer (theatre artist) and other creators are invisible people on the stage, but very important, without whom the magic of the theater would not happen. I am one of them, I create a world of images in performances. in 2018 I graduated with a bachelor's degree in scenography, and in 2021 Master's studies at the Vilnius Academy of Arts. I am still at the beginning of my journey, but I have already created scenography, costumes, video projections, and puppets for Lithuanian and foreign theaters. I had to work with musical, puppet and drama theater performances. Creating scenography for performances of different genres is interesting to me, because it does not become boring, for example, an opera performance is inspired by the music itself, its rhythm, style, so I create images not only based on the story written in the libretto, but also images that reflect the music itself. There is a lot of space for the artist to express himself in puppet theater performances - here I create a story with images, the puppets don't even need to speak. In drama theater productions, it is important for me to respect the dramaturgy, emphasize it and strengthen it with images. I also create my personal visual performances, and since 2018. I work with children, conduct lectures and classes in my specialty, camps at the Family Theater Studio.
For me, scenography is much deeper than the illustration of a play or the transfer of a performance to an actualized space, it is above all creativity, imagination, it must be interesting, distract from everyday life, uplift. The performance is a creative process that takes place not only on the stage, but also in the mind of the viewer. The audience is drawn into the performance when there is something muted, when the stage is not a whole house, but only a window, beams or a wall made of boards that belonged to that house, not an actor dressed in a full reconstruction of historical costume, but an inventive costume with only a few stylized period details . In this way, the viewer creates the rest of the image in his head, and the atmosphere works more when a mystery appears in the image. Art, theater must be strong and affect the soul of the audience to convey a message. For me, it is much more important to immerse the audience in a certain mood, atmosphere, to create a medium that would reflect the general atmosphere of the performance, perhaps the period, would evoke some kind of feeling. I also aim to visually and metaphorically reflect the main idea of the performance in the scenography. And it is even more interesting if there are changes in decorations or lights, a transformation of the scenography and even more thoughts, ideas, feelings are revealed with the help of images.
So, a performance without scenography is just a dull, empty, black space. But still, how is the scenography created? The purpose of this exhibition is to reveal the processes of how an image is born in the theater. What does a scenographer's creative desk look like, and how ideas, music, atmosphere spread in the scenography of different performances, characters are reborn in matter. We invite young and old theater fans to see how worlds are born from the set designer's idea, the first dot on a piece of paper", - shares the thoughts of the author of the exhibition, G. Korsakaitė