11/12/2023
Egidija Čiricaitė is an artist, poet and researcher, working with and around language and publishing. 🌏
For Unfold II Egidija has created a double sided piece of work, printed at the very edge of the page, that reflects on reflection — it reflects of the idea of change as a reflection of the old. It considers how recto acts as the mirror of the verso and how the idea of UN-doing acts as a mirror image (rather than the reverse) of -doing. The is playfully interacted with through the act of reading an unfolding the publication, with the idea of 'f-old' becomming dismantled into a cacophony of possibilities.
As a researcher Egidija is currently focusing on artist books as verbi-visual art/poetry objects: how they evoke meaning and emotion, how their forms and structures synthesize language and images and the role of metaphor in the relationship between language and the visual and thought.
"As an artist, I use language as my creative medium: veering between visual poetry and poetry of the visual, I build nebulous worlds on the periphery of linguistic experience. My recent work is often bilingual, playing with ethymological interconnectedness of Indo-european languages."
Currently a PhD candidate at the Slade School of Fine Art and UCL Linguistics, working on interdisciplinary research, using Relevance Theory to address the role of metaphor and non-propositional effects in the interpretation of language and the visual information in the artists' books.
https://www.egidija.com/about.html