Indrė Šerpytytė (' born 1983) is a

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n artist living and working in London. Šerpytytė is concerned with the impact of war on history and perception,Goze, Evita
"Interview with Indre Šerpytytė."
FK Magazine. August 24, 2015. and works with

photography Photography is the visual arts, art, application, and practice of creating images by recording light, either electronically by means of an image sensor, or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film. It is empl ...

sculpture Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. Sculpture is the three-dimensional art work which is physically presented in the dimensions of height, width and depth. It is one of the plastic arts. Durable sc ...

, installation and

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. Her work is held by the

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, Roberts Institute of Art and

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and have been exhibited at

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, The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA),

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Museum of Contemporary Art in Kraków The Museum of Contemporary Art in Kraków (MOCAK), (), is a contemporary art gallery in Kraków, Poland that opened on 19 May 2011. Situated 3 kilometres from the centre of the city, on a demolished part of the factory of Oskar Schindler, the aim ...

and

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, among others.

Life and work

Šerpytytė was born in 1983 in

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and moved to London at the age of 14. She received her MA in photography from The Royal College of Art, London and her BA in editorial photography from the

University of Brighton The University of Brighton is a public university based in Brighton on the south coast of England. Its roots can be traced back to 1858 when the Brighton School of Art was opened in the Royal Pavilion. It achieved university status in 1992. T ...

''(1944 – 1991'')

''Former NKVD - MVD - MGB - KGB Buildings'' (2009 - 2015, ongoing) centres on the after-effects of

World War II World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...

in Lithuania. These black and white images tell an almost forgotten story of the domestic conflicts of war, in which people were interrogated and tortured in what were once family homes. Rather than representing the buildings themselves, or showing the inhabitants or victims directly, Šerpytytė uses commissioned, hand-carved wooden models based on archival research and site visits to comment on both the physical and humanitarian scale of the conflict and to recall events that have faded over time. From the same series, ''Forest Brothers'' (2009) looks at the Lithuanian forest as a place both to hide and to disappear as it revisits the environments once home to the period's most active resistance force.

''A State of Silence''

''A State of Silence'' (2006) pays tribute to the artist's father, Albinas Šerpytis, Lithuania's Head of Government Security, who died in suspicious circumstances in a car accident in the early hours of October 13, 2001."Exhibitions."
Camera 16. September 17, 2010.

''2 Seconds of Colour''

The large scale photographic palettes of ''2 Seconds of Colour'' arise from a Google Image search for the term ‘Isis beheadings’. The works present the patchwork of rectangular placeholders automatically generated while the page is loading, their colours extracted from the 'black of the executioner’s garments, the orange of the victim’s jumpsuit rthe blue of the sky’. Responding to the oversaturated media landscape in which they find themselves, the images 'seeking to break the closed circuit between violence that is thoughtlessly executed and violence that is thoughtlessly consumed'.

''150 mph''

The ''150 mph'' paintings depart from images of individuals jumping from New York's

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during the

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. Each image’s human subject has been removed leaving the architecture itself as sole "witness and unintentional memorial."

Publications

Publications by Šerpytytė

*''(1944 – 1991).'' London: self-published, 2010. . Includes an interview with Martin Barnes and a text by Nigel Rolfe.

Publications with others

*''Pokario Istorijos / Post-war Stories.'' Kaunas, Lithuania: Lithuanian Photographers’ Association Kaunas Department, 2015. By Šerpytytė ("Forest Brothers: Former NKVD-MVD-MGB-KGB Buildings"), Claudia Heinermann ("Wolf Children") and Michal Iwanowski ("Clear of People"). . With a text by Sonya Winterberg ("Wolf Children"). Published to accompany an exhibition. English and Lithuanian language.

Awards

*Jerwood Photography Award, Jerwood Visual Arts, Jerwood Foundation, 2006 *The Terry O’Neill Award, 2007 *The Fujifilm Distinction Award, 2008 *

National Media Museum The National Science and Media Museum (formerly The National Museum of Photography, Film & Television, 1983–2006 and then the National Media Museum, 2006–2017), located in Bradford, West Yorkshire, is part of the national Science Museum ...

Photography Bursary, 2009 *Hoopers Gallery Prize, 2009 *Metro Imaging Prize, 2009 * Magenta Foundation Flash Forward Prize, 2010 *Nominated for the Rencontres d’Arles Discovery Award by Simon Baker,

Tate Tate is an institution that houses, in a network of four art galleries, the United Kingdom's national collection of British art, and international modern and contemporary art. It is not a government institution, but its main sponsor is the UK ...

Senior Curator, International Art (Photography), 2011 *Shortlisted for The Arts Foundation’s Still Life Photography Award, 2013

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

*The Embassy of the Republic of Lithuania, London, 2009. *Camera 16, Milan, 2010 *Vilniaus Fotografijos Galerija, Vilnius, 2011 *

, London, 2010 * Ffotogallery, Penarth, 2013; *Kraków Photomonth Festival,

(MOCAK), 2015

Group exhibitions

, London *

, London"Collection Search: Serpytyte, Indre."
V&A (The Victoria and Albert Museum). * Rencontres d’Arles, Arles, France, 2011 *National Gallery of Art, Vilnius, 2013 *Street Level Photoworks, Glasgow, UK *''Conflict, Time, Photography,''

, London, 2014–2015. *

, Essen, 2015 *Tbilisi Photo Festival *''Ocean of Images,''

Museum of Modern Art The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, on 53rd Street (Manhattan), 53rd Street between Fifth Avenue, Fifth and Sixth Avenues. MoMA's collection spans the late 19th century to the present, a ...

(MoMA), New York, 2015–2016

Collections

Šerpytytė 's work is held in the following public collections: *

, London * Roberts Institute of Art, London * The collection of

Jay Jopling Jeremy Michael "Jay" Jopling (born June 1963) is an English art dealer and gallerist. He is the founder of White Cube. Early life Jeremy Michael Jopling is the son of Michael Jopling, Michael Jopling, Baron Jopling, a Conservative Party (UK), ...

, London *

, London"Art: A State of Silence (Telephone) by Indre Serpytyte at Angel Building."
Derwent London. 2010.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Serpytyte, Indre Living people 1983 births 20th-century Lithuanian women artists 21st-century Lithuanian women artists 20th-century women photographers 21st-century women photographers Alumni of the Royal College of Art Alumni of the University of Brighton British contemporary artists Documentary photographers Lithuanian photographers Lithuanian women photographers Lithuanian women journalists Lithuanian expatriates in the United Kingdom People from Palanga Women photojournalists