ウリヨナ・オディシャリヤ
アーティスト／リトアニア・ジョージア
Ulijona Odišarija is a Lithuanian-Georgian artist based between Vilnius and London. She works across sculpture, photography, video, text and acts of collecting.
Ulijona has been working with found images from online resale platforms and reused wrapping, packaging and office paper, creating abstract sculptural objects, collages and photographs that often act as fuzzy reflections of mass production. She explores mediated domesticity and the ways wear and use subvert mass production, resisting conservation and giving objects a different valence. She's equally drawn to the amateur snapshots that populate resale platforms, reading these vernacular product images against the lineage of still life and the conventions of fashion and commercial photography.
Proposal
During the residency, Ulijona will investigate how function and poetry intersect in Japanese wrapping culture — from food preservation and storage to gift wrapping and protective casing — allowing it to hold mystery and meaning. Her research will combine hands-on exploration of paper manipulation techniques with a writing practice.
The residency was realized with the support of the Lithuanian Council for Culture and Arts Council England.