„inlet : įvadas“ exhibition by Sophie Durand

On the 4th of April at 6 pm. “Inlet : įvadas”, an exhibition by interdisciplinary artist and Užupis Art Incubator resident Sophie Durand (Australia) will open the doors of the Užupis Art Incubator Gallery, inviting the visitor to enter a space that has become an inlet of an inland ocean.

Piranesi’s journals share experiences from within a house where architecture and sea are muddled (Susanna Clarke, 2020). Geographically: an inlet is a small arm of a sea, a lake or a river or an inlet is a place or means of entry. Indrė describes how the translation of inlet to ‘įvadas’ in Lithuanian creates reference to a grammatical term; ‘įvadas’ when translated back to English refers to an introduction to a text.

“inlet : įvadas” invites audiences into a space that is an inlet of an inland ocean, it is a multipart exhibition that includes installations assembled by artist Sophie Durand. These installations create a scenography for a series of events hosted by friends of the artist as well as a space to engage with fragments of Australian television history.
Sophie Durand is an artist from Boorloo/Perth, Western Australia based in Vilnius. Sophie’s multi-disciplinary practice extends from the intersection of sculpture and performance art and draws from anecdotal histories and archives of landscape for subject matter. Currently she is looking at strategies to reposition her artworks within environmental settings and to work more empathetically with ecological systems. Since 2023, Sophie has been a resident at Užupis Art Incubator.