Artist Registry
The White Columns Curated Artist Registry is an online platform for emerging and under-recognized artists to share images and information about their respective practices. The Registry seeks to create a context for artists who have yet to benefit from wider critical, curatorial or commercial support. To be eligible, artists cannot be affiliated with a commercial gallery in New York City.
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STATEMENT OF WORK
Monika Plioplyte collages printed and cut paper, photographs, and other materials into narrative structures that explore reflections on the past, the transmission of information, gender, and states of "in-betweenness" as they relate to her immigrant experience. Her practice is driven by Lithuanian Baltic folklore, female archetypes, personal rituals, and the uncanny, integrating these themes through intricate textile-inspired patterns. These patterns function as metaphors for the flow and exchange of information, while linking personal narratives to broader systems of collective identity and knowledge. Through printmaking, photography, performance, and installation, Plioplyte uses abstracted folk symbols rooted in nature worship, and her own body as both object and subject to create a visual language that reflects on layered meanings of inhabiting human body and our collective connection to the earth, examining how these relationships shape identity, memory, and belonging.