Virsmas︱Transition

The exhibition Virsmas / Transition begins with touch. Transition becomes a way of reflecting on environment, time, memory, and the traces of everyday life. Creation itself is ever changing – a continuous attempt to touch and register existence. In this exhibition, paper becomes a blanket, candy wrappers turn into a silvery collection resembling an insect archive, and dreams take the form of a virtual substitute.

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I hold the corner of a blanket in my palm. One of those passed down through generations, stored in closets of homes and summer cottages. It protects, hides, wraps, and quietly carries a narrative of hidden histories. I stroke it, touch it – it is soft, slightly prickly thread. One lies spread out, another at the end of the bed in case of a cold night. When wrapped around the body, it presses gently. I touch paper, caress it with my hands, until, warmed and softened, it becomes a fragment of a blanket.

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In January 2024, in a second-hand shop in Helsinki, I found a bag with 383 carefully preserved candy wrappers. Someone collected them patiently and with care, perhaps thinking they might be useful someday. I keep that thought. Almost two years later, the refolded wrappers become a rustling collection resembling shimmering insect specimens.

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Dogs wander through an insistently bright green landscape contained within my laptop screen. I spent 777 hours creating my own “Eden” in The Sims. A vision reduced to artificial traces. Not serious—but this is how dreams are assembled in virtual space.

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I invite you, once you return home, to touch your blanket, crinkle a candy wrapper, listen to the hum of a computer fan, and look into a virtual construct filled with imagined desires. And to notice your own transitions—how everyday life quietly shifts from one state to another through feeling, thought, memory, word, sound, and line.

Further reading: An article on the exhibition is available on LRT.lt (LT).
More about the exhibition: full information can be found on menonisa.en (EN).