‘Paint Job’ by Tomas Sinkevičius and Viltė Bražiūnaitė at Klubovna Gallery

Viltė Bražiūnaitė’s and Tomas Sinkevičius’ art practice looks at how late capitalism and automation have created a new mode of subjectivity – a form of life whose conditions are not determined by its own physical needs, but established by demands of global capital. In the exhibition ”Paint Job” at Klubovna gallery, the duo creates an undefined industrial environment that confronts the representation of organic bodies: their traces, their loss, their needs. In “Paint Job”, movements of blue-collar workers and farmed salmon are prompted by the rhythms of production and exploitation. The installation appropriates shapes and high-energy colours that have been manipulated by contemporary consumer culture in order to facilitate faster customer turnover and product desirability. The video of the floating 3D necklace explores the relationship that material and object have to social class and the body that wears it, while the colors of the aluminium sculptures, selected from the standardised color set “SalmoFan”, address the artificial colouring used in aquaculture to imitate the colour that biodiversity would normally provide in the wild. It becomes increasingly difficult to judge if we are triggered solely by a product’s engineered shape and colour, or if what we are experiencing is the result of our bodies and their natural and cultural histories.

With support from The Ministry of Culture Czech Republic, The City of Brno and Lithuanian Council for Culture.

Tomas Sinkevičius and Viltė Bražiūnaitė, Paint Job, Galerie Klubovna, exhibition view. Photo courtesy of the artists

Tomas Sinkevičius and Viltė Bražiūnaitė, Paint Job, Galerie Klubovna, exhibition view. Photo courtesy of the artists

Tomas Sinkevičius and Viltė Bražiūnaitė, Paint Job, Galerie Klubovna, exhibition view. Photo courtesy of the artists

Tomas Sinkevičius and Viltė Bražiūnaitė, Paint Job, Galerie Klubovna, exhibition view. Photo courtesy of the artists

Tomas Sinkevičius and Viltė Bražiūnaitė, Paint Job, Galerie Klubovna, exhibition view. Photo courtesy of the artists

Tomas Sinkevičius and Viltė Bražiūnaitė, Paint Job, Galerie Klubovna, exhibition view. Photo courtesy of the artists