March 11 – April 4 the Vilnius art space “GODÒ gallery” presents the painting and drawing exhibition “Confession” by artist Anna Reviakina.

Exhibition opening: March 11 (Wednesday), 6 PM.

“Every artwork is a confession of its author,” says Anna Reviakina, leaving little doubt that for the her, creation is an intimate act of opening up and distilling what truly matters.

Even her creative process resembles preparation for something more profound than an ordinary action – only when she can be in solitude, silence, and an empty space does the artist touch the canvas. Perhaps this is why there are no traces of everyday worries or noise in her works – only silence, or the whisper of brushstrokes.

By abandoning narrative elements, Anna Reviakina places states of being at the forefront of her work – expressed through the vibration and depth of color, flashes of light, and openings of shadow. Like observing the sky or mist – something undefined yet quietly sublime – the artist’s works immerse the viewer in absolute calm, in the absence of time and in emptiness.

Yet this emptiness functions not as a lack, but as an open, breathing space. It is a conscious refusal of details and a silencing of distracting thoughts. The minimalist aesthetic opens a sense of boundless space where the gaze has nothing to “cling” to and therefore is forced to slow down. In this sense, one does not simply look at the artist’s works – one inhabits them.

Alongside the paintings, the exhibition also presents drawings in which figurative elements appear – an anatomically precise human figure – yet it too seems suspended in emptiness. Here two poles intersect: body and feeling, definition and weightlessness, matter and ephemerality. In artist’s drawings, the figure is less a participant in a narrative than a point of orientation toward a bare state of being.

Anna Reviakina’s works have no predetermined goal or intention to explain anything. They emerge as a process in which canvas and paint acquire an independent presence. “My stories are about nothing,” the artist says. Yet it is precisely this territory of “nothingness” that becomes the place where the artist’s creative confession transforms into the viewer’s emotional recognition.

Admission to the exhibition is free.

Anna Reviakina (b. 1972) lives and works in Vilnius. From 1989 to 1994 she studied at the Vilnius Academy of Arts, where she received a Master’s degree in Architecture.

From 1995 to 2001 she worked as a lecturer in computer-aided design and architectural graphics at the Department of Architecture of the Vilnius Academy of Arts, and taught architectural design, composition, and computer graphics at the Vilnius College of Design.

She is a member of the Lithuanian Artists’ Association.

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Gallery address: Malūnų St. 6A, Vilnius.

Opening hours: Tue–Fri 13:00–19:00, Sat 12:00–18:00.