Agne Jonynaite
I work where intimacy meets structure — in a language of repetition, care, and quiet resistance.
Drawings · Contemporary · Design · Photography
Contemporary
From intimate observation into public gesture
My contemporary work explores the fragile architectures of connection — how we appear, relate, and sometimes disappear within social space. Through public interventions, participatory acts, and quiet performances, I examine intimacy, absence, and shared presence as materials in themselves
Rituals (durational performance)
Over nine hours, I lit more than a thousand candles — a slow act of witnessing the last four years of my life. Each flame marked a moment, a memory, a fragment of grief or gratitude. The repetition became both meditation and exhaustion, a physical translation of endurance and release. In the end, what remained was light, smoke, and silence — traces of time made visible.
Drawings
Letters to the self, through coulour shape and form, records of space, closeness and loss
The drawings begin as quiet conversations with absence. Faces, half-formed or dissolving, become carriers of narrative and emotion — fragments of stories that surface through colour and erasure. Between the layers, messages appear and fade, written in the spaces where words lose their meaning. Each work stands as a trace of connection, an unfinished letter to those who once stood close.
Design
Pattern as language — repetition as a way to remember and renew.
My design practice centres on textile print and repeat pattern as forms of visual language. I explore how texture, rhythm, and colour can carry meaning beyond surface — at times bright, even conversational, with an element of quiet provocation. Alongside studio work, I have developed woodblock and stamp-based processes and organised workshops that invite people to redesign and extend the life of garments through upcycling. For me, sustainability is not limited to carbon footprint; it also speaks to attention, continuity, and the ability to care for what already exists.
Photography
Accidents of light - coincidences and quiet alignements
Photography, for me, is a form of collecting — a habit of noticing. I gather textures, plants, small accidents and strange coincidences; fragments where nature carries a trace of the human. Often macro mingles with ordinary distance, two or three frames forming a collage where a quiet, unexplainable story takes shape.
About
She holds an MA from Chelsea College of Arts (University of the Arts London) and a BA from the Vilnius Academy of Arts. Her work has been exhibited widely in Lithuania and internationally, including Vanish / Survive at Arka Gallery, where her miniature tapestry received the Golden Needle Award and was later included in Lithuania’s Golden Fund Collection. Her documentary film Mother and Daughter also received recognition for raising awareness about domestic violence.
Following a period of creative withdrawal from the public art scene, Jonynaite’s practice now re-emerges with renewed focus on the relationship between private narrative and shared experience. Through drawing, participatory performance, installation, and design research, she examines how tenderness, endurance, and the everyday act of making can form a quiet resistance to emotional detachment. Her drawings, often treated as a near-journal practice, trace the subtle rhythms of emotional life—acts of reflection that bridge the personal and the collective.
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To all who have supported, documented, and shared in this practice—thank you.