Description

„The artist loves mystery, the unpredictability of fate; and she likes it when her art carries this mark of the fatalistic. She is enchanted by the paradox of appearance and reality, „when things are one way, but appear just the opposite“. She is a typical representative of intuitivist irrational philosophy, interested in passion, instinct and presentiment. Yet the threatening reality is absent from her artwork, and her good-natured characters with their kind postures add vitality and warmth to the poetic, mystic, or ironic associations developed by the artist. Literary interpretation of life situations, unrestricted flowing of her ideas, is tightly tied to her subconscious visions. The art Nijole Šaltenyte can be defined as the endeavour of a contemporary Romantic to challenge the established order of things and their established appearances.“ (art critic Regina Urboniene).

© Photographer – Daiva Liubamirskaite.