Arvydas Umbrasas

Arvydas Umbrasas (b. 1986) is a Vilnius-based artist who studied at the Vienna University of Applied Arts in Austria and Bergen Academy of Art and Design in Norway.

Arvydas Umbrasas’ objects are inspired by the enigmatic interstellar body recently recorded in history for the first time, Omuamua. The word, translated from Hawaiian, means “scout” or “messenger from afar”. Having passed by the Sun in 2017, the celestial body provoked many hypotheses about its nature and inspired the artist to create a series of similarly indecipherable sculptural bodies. A series of dreamcatchers, of unknown origin, polished by the heat or velocity of stars are domesticated by a mattress and a blanket: in an indefinite home, they testify to potenti al Apollonian achievements.

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