Meilė

Juste Bernotaite, [2021-22 Graduate in Residence, UUB], is a Lithuanian painter based in Belfast. Her practice combines the exploration of the history of her motherland, Lithuania, as well as personal experiences growing up there. Each work is an attempt at navigating different threads and histories from the past.

Meilė, (Lithuanian for ‘love’), will feature a series of paintings that invite viewers to immerse themselves in the complexities of a landscape that’s affected by unrecognised trauma, grief, frustration and forebodings.

Juste explores the history of their homelands, and navigates her relationship to the landscapes in the hopes of ‘releasing’ it in the medium of oil paint.