Geistė Marija Kinčinaitytė
(Lithuania/UK)

smooth space, pleated
In the series "smooth space, pleated" and the video essay "The Pool", bodies, seas, cold glacial rivers and opening geological layers intertwine, where moods of discomfort, decay, alienation and closeness merge. Jogintė Bučinskaitė notes that this series creates a feeling of solastalgia: "The bodies in the photographs become integral folds of the landscape, visually concurring with the clotted waterfalls or withered volcanic peaks. The artist directs our gaze in such a way that the images before our eyes look like vaguely reminiscent yet unrecognisable postcards of a deserted Earth and abandoned bodies, inclusions of terrestrial memory. The longer you look, the more poignant and wistful they become." In this series, the author explores the perspective of the Other, which she uses as a way to create a relationship with what remains beyond knowledge.

Geistė Marija Kinčinaitytė is a Lithuanian artist and researcher, who approaches her photographic and video practice as an exploration of belonging, alienation, and the unknown. Overall, her practice is defined by encounters with the eerie, which is understood to be both the cessation of a comfort zone – whether self, human, habit, habitat, milieu – and alertness to a yet-to-be-identified presence. Since 2014, her work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in the UK, Lithuania, Norway, Taiwan, South Korea, China. She holds a PhD in Film and Screen Studies from the University of Cambridge. Geistė's photographic and written works were published in The British Journal of Photography, NYX: a noctournal magazine, Lithuanian Photography: Yesterday and Today '15 annual, Fotografija Nr. 1 (30) magazine, You Belong to Me exhibition catalogue, The Dark Side of The Story exhibition catalogue, S.KIN journal, Tjejland magazine, Krantai, 7md, artnews.lt, echogronewrong.com. In 2022, the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Lithuania granted her the status of an artist.