Naglis Kristijonas Zakaras
He graduated from the Vilnius Academy of Arts, Department of Sculpture in 2017.
Naglis Kristijonas Zakaras (b. 1991, Lithuania) lives and works in Vilnius. He graduated from the Vilnius Academy of Arts, Department of Sculpture in 2017, one year later participating in Rupert’s Alternative Education Programme. Zakaras’s work explores politically charged topics, not avoiding historical discourses and narratives, but at the same time trying to highlight an individual’s relationship to the subject matter.
The Phaethon is a collection of objects and stories in which the image is both a material artefact and an immaterial representation. It continues research related to the word ‘fiat’ (Latin “let there be”, “let it be done”); a word proposed to be seen as a power arrangement whereby objects or phenomena are given new properties that enable them to act in a different way from the usual. At the same time, the question is raised: who is the one who can say “let there be”? What is the position of power that is capable of creating grand narratives? And what happens to an individual in the light of these stories, when faced with a new reality, especially without their active consent?
