Ceramic City, the installation by artist-designer Kristina Ancutaite, is an expression of a conceptual approach to art ceramics, created with the help of video and sound. The installation was exhibited at the Quadrennial Contemporary Art 2023 in Vilnius, Lithuania, and examines the real and artificial division of society. Boxes arranged like a city with individual buildings and windows open or closed on our heart, subconscious and reality. Boxes resembling architectural forms as windows open to a creative world, a bridge between the real and the imaginary, where the boundaries of time and place are erased. The installation urges the viewer to wonder what is on the other side and what it actually means to build "bridges" to open "windows" between the viewer and the work. An action of encouragement through art addressed to the need for dialogue in art.
Kaunas, Kristina's hometown is a twin city of ceramics with Cava de' Tirreni. Kristina is a ceramist, architect, lecturer at the Department of Architecture of the Vilnius Academy of Arts and Member of the LDS Council, head of the Kaunas Ceramics Section. Since 1997 she has participated in international art exhibitions and events creating ceramic and interdisciplinary projects. She has been working as an interior designer since 2002, creating private and public interiors.