Virsmas︱Transition

The exhibition Virsmas / Transition begins with touch. Transition becomes a way of reflecting on the surroundings, 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 stories. I stroke it, touch it – it is soft, slightly prickly thread. 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).