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Planting and Accummulating: Symbols and Objects

Posted on September 23, 2026September 23, 2026 by Monika Lipšic

Gabrielle Zemaityte-Travis is an artist and cultural programmer based in South East London, having lived and worked in the UK since 2010. Zemaityte-Travis holds an MFA from Goldsmiths, University of London and a BA in Fine Art from Middlesex University. She first studied at Alytus Art School and Vilnius Vienožinskis Art School, under Arūnas Gudaitis and Eglė Vertelkaitė.

Gabrielle Zemaityte-Travis’ practice deals with anthropomorphism of non-human entities, plants, objects, and technologies. It’s characterised by her Baltic heritage, animated worldview, ideas of theatre, and global strategies of visual merchandising. When making video installations and photographic work based on themes of personification, she is focusing on how human anxieties are represented in mythology and in discourse with non-human entities. In the past, she has developed a series of video works in which an imagined AI attempts to empathise with the positions of the Serpent and Spruce characters from the Lithuanian mythological tale Eglė, Žalčių Karalienė (Eglė, Queen of Serpents). Between 2021 and 2025, she also worked on a digital artwork that deteriorates with every viewing, Degrading Video.

Her recent work has increasingly turned towards symbolic forms and material processes, investigating how images, stories and objects accumulate meaning over time. Taking inspiration from the fact that the Mother of Thousands houseplant is commonly referred to as a “slut plant” in Lithuanian, Gabrielle Zemaityte-Travis developed a photographic series by placing descriptions of the physical conditions that cause the plant to behave in particular ways alongside images of the plant. The meaning of these descriptions is implied rather than explicitly stated, creating a space for associations between language and the projection of human characteristics onto non-human entities.

Gabrielle Zemaityte-Travis has exhibited in the UK and internationally, including Somerset House (2025), VSSL Studios (2024), Kabinett Gallery, Berlin (2025-2026), The Wrong Biennale (2023-2024), The Kanoria Centre for Arts, Ahmedabad, India (2023) and Pamenkalnio Gallery, Vilnius (2021). She currently co-runs Deep Focus, an artist moving image platform, alongside Jael Arazi, Shira Bar, and Ursula Pelczar and is Head of Operations at London-based arts production company – KitMapper. For The Good Neighbour video, Gabrielle Zemaityte-Travis is inviting us into her studio and her world of plants in her magical South East London workspace.

IMAGES BECOME SOUNDS THEN OBJECTS THEN IMAGES AGAIN

Posted on May 24, 2026May 24, 2026 by Monika Lipšic

Anton Lukoszevieze moves across this loop with a practiced instability – between cello and camera, score and image, composition and field recording. Based between Vilnius and London, he works as a cellist, composer, and visual artist whose practice unfolds like an pile of traces rather than finished statements.

A central figure in contemporary experimental music, Lukoszevieze is the founder and director of Apartment House – an ensemble that has, over decades, mapped the edges of avant-garde composition and was awarded the Royal Philharmonic Society Award for its contribution to new music. His performances have taken place across key international venues, from London’s Wigmore Hall to BBC Maida Vale Studios, while his recordings continue to circulate through independent experimental labels such as The Trilogy Tapes.

In parallel, his visual work extends the logic of listening into seeing. In his recent solo exhibition DISTRICT at VDA Gallery Artifex in Vilnius, curated by Paulina Pukytė, everyday walks through the Naujamiestis district were transformed into a dense archive of photographs, objects, and sound fragments as a kind of psycho-geographic score of the city rendered through attention and delay.

His recent solo album Le Jardin des Plantes continues this drift: a work where cello, memory, and urban observation dissolve into one another, less as narrative than as residue. Alongside it, his amplified drawings and photographic processes operate as extensions of performance: gestures that refuse to settle into a single medium.

Anton Lukoszevieze (b. 1965) is a Lithuanian-British artist whose work consistently returns to fragile systems of perception: how we move through cities, how sound becomes image, how repetition becomes memory.

Videography: Elena Reimerytė
Artists: Anton Lukoszevieze, Appartment House
Produced by The Good Neighbour, 2026
Curated by Juste Kostikovaite

Partners and supporters: Lithuanian Council for Culture, UK Lithuanian Youth Association, Justas Janauskas

800 Portraits of the People I don’t know

Posted on January 8, 2026January 8, 2026 by Monika Lipšic

New York City–based Lithuanian artist Vytenis Jankūnas works between painting and photography, turning his attention to people as they move through quotidien situations. He captures them in moments of hurry and worry, or in fleeting searches for pleasure. All this happens in the streets, very often completely unaware of the subject being a photographer. One can feel the intensity that the city lives its life through its inhabitants, amuses them, exhausts them, connects them, confuses them. Vytenis Jankūnas’ (b. 1961) recent shows and publications include a group show in MOCAK (Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow), one man shows at SLA Art Space in NYC and Prospekto Gallery in Vilnius, also a photo book called Dance with Me published by Taad Foundation.

Cameraman: Šarūnas Burža
Questions and editing: Akvilė Kavaliauskaitė
All pictures and graphics: Vytenis Jankūnas

Produced by The Good Neighbour, 2026