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The world obliges me to do something, so I create.
 Society wants me to belong, so I observe.
People force me to react, so I rebel.
They want me to stay still, so I paint.
Life requires me to live, but I am dying. . .

Mūtātiō, Köln and my exhibition

13/5/2015

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I had such an amazing time in Germany, thanks so much to everyone who came and shared their thoughts with me on Saturday! You people are incredible! I was so scared and terrified that something will go wrong. That people won't understand my artworks and like most of the time I won't be criticised for what I should be, but will experience personal attacks and my ideas will be torn apart. It didn't happen (ok, there were a couple of people who said nasty things, but who does care about them anyway when you have many supportive people around?). It was one of the best days in my life! 
Hello world. 
I just had an exhibition in Germany and still feel over excited about how great everything turned out. So bellow You will be able to find some information (mostly pictures) how it did go. 
And here you can read a proper introduction to the series Mūtātiō
It's so important to talk and connect different issues. Every single piece of Mūtātiō questions gender constructs, looks much deeper into the transition process as well as carefully touches a huge inequality between species. We live in the society where is vital to question our own superiority and realise connections in this huge intersectional, sometimes broken, spider web. World pushes its own morals and ideas, not leaving enough space to reflect our lives, ideas or question one's status quo. But we must stop and think. We must stop, feel and realise that not everything we were told is true. The world is not only black and white. The whole life is a grey area. The obvious might be hidden, but we need to look deeper to realise it. 
You do have a voice. Don't let them silence you...
Special thanks to my parter in crime Theresa for all the wonderful help and support. Talking with you, sharing ideas, planning the future and discussing things made life so much better and easier. Thank you for believing in me and interpreting my works. You are AWESOME (I'm awesome sometimes too). Hope we'll be able to share much more art adventures in the future! 

To all my friends who came all the way from different cities and different countries. Love you all! Thank you for being here and sharing those great moments with me. 
Shout out to all the fantastic human beings I met, it was so much fun to share my ideas with you, can't wait for next time!
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As the space was huge I decided to use one of the walls as a conceptual space and do something different. 
I even felt like being at university again, just this time I was the one making all the decisions and there were no teachers you need to please. All the time I was surrounded by most encouraging people who believed in what I'm doing. 
I was not sure how visitors are going to react to this exhibition, as like always, my art is SO controversial, metaphorical and philosophical... Through my art I talk about things that make society uncomfortable. Very uncomfortable. You can't find answers to the questions and after looking and investigating end up having more questions. That's what art should do - make one to think and question.
It worked very well and we ended up discussing about life, universe, inequality and our own experiences. 

Thank YOU everyone who wrote (and drew!) into my book and shared your personal feelings, emotions and thoughts with me. 
My art (and sadness) is everything I have, so sharing it with the rest of the world, getting so much positive feedback and being able to talk with people who can see and feel more than just a beautiful picture made me extremely happy. 
I feel inspired and want to do so much more! I want to be able to leave something with a meaning, something much bigger than I am, much more important.. So people could remember my works and still talk about my ideas after I'm gone. 
I DO NOT WANT GO BACK TO THE REALITY! 
Copyright © Lex Kartanė

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All works are copyrighted and not to be used without the permission of the author.
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my art exhibition in Munich, Ecce Homo or why am I so clever?

29/6/2013

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"Why do I know more than other people? Why, in general, am I so clever? I have never pondered over questions that are not really questions. I have never wasted my strength. I have no experience, for instance, of actual religious difficulties..." (borrowed from Nietzsche)
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Last week I had an exhibition in Munich, so bellow You will be able to find some information about it.
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Mit berührenden Bildern und Fotographien von schmerzhafter Schönheit, führt die Künstlerin den Betrachter in die Welt des Tierversuchs ein. Kombiniert mit informativen Textpassagen, enthüllt Milda Bandzaitè die Wahrheit hinter der klinischen Kälte des Tierversuchs: ethische Grausamkeit und wissenschaftliche Absurdität.

© Ärzte gegen Tierversuche e.V.

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Wahnsinnig traurig und berührend - und andererseits bekommt man es gleich mit der Wut zu tun und ist schlichtweg schockiert.

© ClaudiGoesVegan
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Thanks to everyone who came to show their support and interest in my works. Even more thanks to those who shared their ideas, thoughts and many other things with me during that time. Special thanks to: Jonathan, Laima, Nicole, Michael and Jasmin.

Through my art I try to make people think about the absurdity of many things that were created by mankind. I would like people to think more about their actions by themselves and not to follow the mass blindly. If one chooses to do a wrong thing, it should be done by his/her own will and not just because the rest of humanity does the same wrong thing. I believe that art is one of the ways to make our world and the planet a better place.

Despite the fact that I always criticize mankind, I still kind of liked You, human beings.
I hope that people in Munich liked me a little bit as well and will be looking forward for the next time.

Eine sehr empfehlenswerte Ausstellung mit sehr berührender Kunst von Milda.

©TariTime
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Fragment from my work "Brain Fusion" (Project "Vivisection")
a Conceptual Artist from the Wonderland

©GraphicArtNews

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Experiments on animals are quite common and popular, but not many know about the common laboratory Homo Sapiens that is an ideal experimental animal for several reasons: abundance of literature published pertaining to them, ease of handling, high fertility rate and disease model for various disorders and diseases.
Someone pointed out, that it might be unethical to perform experiments on humans, but I disagree. We do not violate any rights of human beings, simply because they have none to violate at all. They are not morally self legislative and cannot possibly be members of any truly moral community  or possess rights. Although from time to time I raise those moral questions to myself as well.

There is no harm (only ethics) involved in behaviour studies, but how about studies for medicines, cancer and others? Humans have to be killed for various reasons during those experiments, including the collection of blood or tissues, disposal at the end of an experiment, especially where humans are experiencing pain which cannot be alleviated. It is believed by some scientists that humans are one of the relatively few species to have sufficient self-awareness to recognize themselves in a mirror. Although mirror test really cannot be a reliable source for measuring consciousness. 22 years I observed human race and learned a lot about them. I can tell that there is no big difference between human’s and sheep’s mental abilities.
It is easy to motivate humans during experiments; researches showed that the primary motivators and stimulators are food, easy entertainment toys (like TV) and sexual intercourse. You, human beings, are all the same. But I still find it interesting to observe and experiment on You.


So, thank You for reading and being interested in my art!
Copyright © Lex Kartanė

All rights reserved.
All works are copyrighted and not to be used without the permission of the author.
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    AIWS is a strange invention in this planet - a machine with a brush, pen and camera in its hands. It just observes and pictures the sad and cruel reality of everyday life. If You do not get it, do not worry too much, it just means that You are average. But of course You are more than welcome to read, think about and even share Your very important thoughts. Just remember: the majority of humanity does not interest AIWS at all, so please, do not feel offended. It's not You, just Your mediocrity.

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