The exhibition Forest Blossoms presents a creative perspective by Viktorija Kralikienė, an employee of the Vilnius University Life Sciences Center, on what lies right beside us – in the forest, in the plants that grow there, and in their forms and colours. The artist turns to pine cones, branches, and plant fragments, transforming them into a visual, tactile artistic language.
In these works, painting transcends its conventional boundaries: the surface becomes relief-like, layered, and close to sculptural expression. Here, paint functions as a material that not only covers but also creates form, rhythm, and repetition. Structures derived from nature are fragmented and recombined into new compositions that retain an organic sense of growth.
The pine cone becomes a point of departure in this exhibition: its shape, texture, and structure break down into smaller elements that repeat, transform, and merge into the overall image. In this way, ornamental yet dynamic compositions emerge, reflecting natural cycles of growth, unfolding, and change.
Forest Blossoms invites viewers to pause and take a closer look: at the surface, the details, the small forms that reveal themselves differently up close than from a distance. It is an exhibition about the ability to notice what often slips past us in everyday life and remains unseen.
The exhibition is on display on the ground floor of the Vilnius University Life Sciences Center, in the space near the Auditoriums R106 and R108.