allsofeatherlightseven
An artist duo consisting of Gabija Pernavaitė and Žygimantas Bėrontas with a subtle, visually poetic language
allsofeatherlightseven is early, sunny, tall, and soft (auth. note) – an artist duo consisting of Gabija Pernavaitė and Žygimantas Bėrontas with a subtle, visually poetic language. Both artists graduated from the Vilnius Academy of Arts with Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in photography and media art. Mostly creating performative performances and installations, allsofeatherlightseven uses a multitude of expressive forms, such as objects, findings, photography, movement, and sound art, but the essential element here is text. The most distinctive features of the duo’s work have been highlighted by art historian and curator Valentinas Klimašauskas: “sensitivity – the fragility and gracefulness of each drawing, word and sentence; these works-animals act as ghosts or spectres; between ghostology and hauntology, between the science of ghosts and the science of being possessed, ghostliness , but not as per Mark Fischer’s term, where hauntology is about the social and cultural ghosts that creep in from the past – here they are rather friendly and fearful beings who create new versions of the present.”
Artwork "The Sun is above things"
“The sun is above things. It warms my plants. Warm together. Weightless, cannot be grasped. So windy and dry, I think, until I can find my very thin sheet of paper. It has a turn, it has this road. I have fingers to caress gently and carefully. I would always gently caress anywhere. In my work, the sun is above things. It warms my plants. warm together. Sometimes I lean on this idea. It is a fast day. animals reproduce by themselves. the wind climbs along the roots. The light pulls them out of the unruly night they were in before: a dark mass, a strange new bird and perhaps someone else, another guest, a newer bird. sunny, tall, soft. a stone full of water. Flooded narrow and through all the mud embraces the elastic waist. A flower grew on top of you, roots pushing and falling through it all. Nature threatens the sense of abundance. Today I cannot think of any more words, and perhaps it is better, right? The sky has the ingredients I love.” (PIA)
