Eglė Kuckaitė. Sneezing Meteors on the Mountain

From 8 to 31 October 2025, the Vilnius Graphic Art Centre’s gallery Kairė-dešinė will host an exhibition of works by Eglė Kuckaitė, Sneezing Meteors on the Mountain. The opening will take place on 8 October at 6 p.m.

‘A beetle crushed on the pavement. The colour of the wings, a kaleidoscopic pattern. Aesthetic beauty and the horror of ending rush in, intertwined. A feeling comes, of being filled with something that whispers: create. Create the aesthetics of beauty and decay. Dust from ancient comets ignites in the atmosphere, begins to glow and falls as meteors. The greater the speed, the brighter the light. I see etchings where nature emerges and fantasy glimmers, borne by humanly damaged thoughts. I work while there is still time, before the view of the beetle dissolves.

I balance on a stream of lines summoned by nature. The lines thicken. I slip into the world of myth. Meanings of images begin to connect and take shape. Lilies of the valley bloom, a Dryad dances beneath Rita’s apple tree, and the Cheshire Cat sings to her. A meadow of grasses. Myth. A bull. Then again, a layer of culture. In the marsh a moose’s reflection appears, moving across tree-tops shaped by dampness, in them I see only tangled antlers and fragments of broken crowns.

Myth will endure as long as nature does. A poetic state. A prayer. It enchants images into life.
I would avoid the days when nature might abandon myth—and humanity.

Lines radiate signs. To the sea. To the mountains. To birches. To spruces. To mist. To the lake. To a star. My guess is that lines have nerves. They seize my vision and gather into images. These are moments when the etched plate and I merge into one space of thought, a single point of emotion. The point dissolves and spreads as lines. With wonder and premonition, it hums nature. Time melts before my eyes. Lines lead one another on. They hum for images of rays. They brighten and wait for the Sun. Go on humming.’

Eglė Kuckaitė