Evelina Dapkutė is a visual artist working in the fields of contemporary art and film. Although these disciplines seem different at first glance, Evelina consistently combines their experiences – when creating installations, sculptures or filming stage environments, each area complements the other.
In her work, she does not shy away from interdisciplinary approaches, often using kinetic elements, and seeks to create environments that confuse, engage, and raise questions. Evelina is interested in themes of uncertainty, fantasy, deformation, identity, socialization, and the artificial world – that which exists in a borderline state between reality and simulation.
This is the third time the artist has participated in the ARS NOVA festival. Each year, her works invite the viewer to confront an uncomfortable but intriguing version of reality.
Installation "My Waterfall Quietly Murmurs"
“I move quickly, but I don't move from one place. I help you relax, but I pose a threat. I am pleasant to touch, but my strength is difficult to resist.” – these paradoxical statements lead the viewer to the heart of the installation, where power and fragility, beauty and fear meet.
The image of a waterfall is both a meditation and a warning. It attracts, entices to dive in, but at the same time – warns not to cross the line. Water here becomes not only an element of nature, but also a metaphor – it is the boundary between reality and illusion, between natural being and man-made substitute.
The installation asks: what will happen when the natural wonders of the world are replaced by synthetic ones? When waterfalls are imitated by artificial sound, plants by plastic, and life by robots. Technology can imitate, but it cannot surpass, what nature itself has created.
"My Waterfall Quietly Murmurs" is an invitation to stop. To listen. And to rethink how much remains real in our everyday lives, when even a sense of grandeur can be created from pixels, plastic, and sound effects.
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