Simona ŽIlėNaitė

I was born in 1986, in Lithuania.

I had some projects, with them I worked one after another, or sometimes, I was coming back to the privious.
The first were named: “Sacred”.
This was an exhibition about moments. Those special ones that get stuck, through which we change, discover ourselves, improve.
This were my first personal exhibition, so paintings from a long period of time were exhibited. For me, a artwork is never final, it is finished only for that time, but then it lives its own life, acquires other meanings, sometimes transforms. This happened this time as well, some of the works have already been shown somewhere, with their own stories, but their other meanings are also revealed here.
A bed is a very special piece of furniture that contains many meanings, essences, and experiences. From our beginning as living, corporeal beings here, to the end of our lives.
That time I was brave and dare to combine seemingly incompatible furniture and meanings. But in this context they fit, it's about the sacred moments, from our initiation, life's quest, ourselves and through ourselves, something, to our deathbed. Searching for God, in oneself and in others.

Second: “In search of lost home…”

This was a personal continuous painting ...

In 2010 th I graduated from Vilnius Academy of Arts and got master degree in painting.

Through that years I had solo exhibitions in Lithuania, Italy, Denmark; it was exhibitions/projects named:
“Sacral”,
“In search of lost home…”,
“Woman – as a sand… Water and flowers. (Repetitions ).”