"The Days of Anxiety" 2009, wall drawing
(graphite)
in cooperation with pupils from the Vilnius Justinas Vienožinskis
Art School
dimensions variable
(from the project “Survival”)
The large-scale
abstract wall-drawing The Days of
Anxiety (2009) has been
realised in an ongoing cooperation with the pupils of the Justinas
Vienožinskis Art School. It is comprised of a large-scale abstract
wall drawing made with simple graphite pencil direct onto the
gallery wall. The drawing is of hundreds of interlocked spirals
producing an impression of a maelstrom or chaos. It is drawn by the
group of participating students and expresses their collective
social and emotional anxiety about the state of things – and the
future.
The School with its long tradition in art education has recently
had its budgets slashed and is trying to operate under trying
financial circumstances. Inčiūraitė is also concerned with a host
of challenges facing the school (including reform) and the
Lithuanian education system in general. The artist is worried that
school curricula is largely ignorant or unconcerned with the
creative development and socialisation of the students in relation
to the most relevant social transformations, and changes, taking
place within Lithuania. The artist/student collaboration is an
attempt to encourage the belief in the creative potentialities of
the young people.
Photographs
by Artūras Valiauga (2010)