Jurga Luca

Jurga Luca - a Lithuanian artist living in the London. Although J. Luca started photography in 2011, she already actively participates in exhibitions, runs personal exhibitions and increasingly often receives positive ratings. J. Luca's photography contains a dose of phantasmagoria and a cinematographic manner of laying out images. It's not uncommon for her creations to use family photographs (of great-grandparents from 1900's, and grandparents and parents from 1950's). She uses all this archival material as a source of inspiration for ideas and as a base for her creations. They are supplemented by today's images captured in various countries. To reach the desired result, the artist not only touches up pictures with computer programs, but corrects them by hand - pencils, paint, etc.

J. Luca's photographs - a past, hard to remember time. It is sorted into a more or less cohesive plot not by memories, but by fragments of conversations, and smells and sounds reflected from a distant past. Here reality decays, drowning with it links to today and leaving almost no signs of the present. The visible surface is covered by a thick fog, sometimes decorative, sometimes the opposite, ceaselessly swallowing life. Reckognisable faces, things,...

Awarded in "Light Space and Time" Gallery 2012

"Infinity art gallery" Winter Expo 2012,
2nd Place Award

Exhibited in Juried Photography Exhibition
"I'LL BE YOUR MIRROR: PORTRAITS 2013", Los Angeles 2013 May.

London Photographic Association "Let's Face It 9" - The Bronze Award in the series category 2013

Exhibited "The Story of the Creative" "See | Exhibition Space" in Long Island City, Queens NY 2013 September.

Exhibited in "The Dark Side of The Story" 25 April – 29 May. 2014. KKKC (Klaipeda, Lithuania)

Exhibited in "The Dark Side of The Story" 12 December 2014 - 15 January 2015. Siauliai Art Gallery (Siauliai, Lithuania)

Personal Exhibition "Abandoned Silence " 20 September 2014 - 31 January 2015. Lithuanian Russian Drama Theatre . Vilnius, Lithuania.

Group exhibition in London Gabriel Fine Art Gallery 9 December 2015 - 24 December 2015.