Agne Jonynaite



I work where intimacy meets structure .. in a language of repetition, care, and quiet resistance.

 Contemporary

Drawings






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.






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






Missing (public intervention) - Posters of four missing people were installed across a small resort town. The work occupied the civic space between care and spectacle: when does looking become an act?
Food Performance (participatory event) - Cooking during exhibition openings becomes a shared ritual of nourishment and communication. The act of preparing and offering food turns the gallery into a domestic threshold, dissolving the line between artist and audience.

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.

About


I am a Lithuanian-born, London-based artist working across drawing, portraiture, installation, and participatory practice. My work explores human connection, care, image and emotional experience through observation, repetition and acts of making.


Drawing is at the heart of my practice, not as illustration but as a near-journal way of thinking, it is an intimate space where feeling, memory, and observation are given time to settle onto paper. It is where I return, again and again, to make sense of what resists language.
From this private act of making, my work expands outward into installation, collaboration, and shared spaces where personal experience meets collective memory.


 I am interested in endurance, repetition,memory, rupture and the quiet rituals that shape our lives. 


In a world increasingly detached from feeling, I make work that asks for presence: to look closely, to remain with complexity, and to recognise care as something radical.




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To all who have supported, documented, and shared in this practice-Thank you.
Updated 24.10.31