THROUGH HER ARTISTIC PRACTICE KRISTINA EXPRESSES HER PERSONAL UNDERSTANDING OF THE WORLD, HER RELATIONSHIP WITH THE PASSAGE OF TIME, AS WELL AS THE ENCOUNTER WITH HER INNER SELF. HER MAIN SUBJECT IS THE HUMAN BEING AS AN EXISTENCE THAT NATURALLY CONTAINS THE DEEPEST SECRETS AND "RICHES" OF LIFE. BE IT BIRTH OR DEATH, JOY OR FEAR, VANISHING OR BLOSSOMIMG BEAUTY, DESTRUCTIVE OR CREATIVE POWER – SEREIKATE IS SRONGLY ATTRACTED BY THE SERIES OF CONTRASTING NATURES THAT COEXIST IN HUMANITY.
"The author has formed a unique artistic style which reflects romantic personification of modern society. Her works talks about individual emotional state, which is still separated from urbanistic, civilized, demographic influences that is akin to modern times. The photographs reflect states of reminiscence, recollection, associations of their subjects. These states are conveyed through the prism of youthfulness, feminism, generation change or historical personal experience. In this cosmopolitic globalization context the works of Kristina Sereikaite attracts with emotional subjectivism which is cohesive with modern European globalistic identity.
The art of photography by Kristina Sereikaite is marked by stilistic maturity and cosistency. It shows sound artistic logic and purposeful visual mind. The fact that the artist has studied and worked as a film shooter also added some cinematographic quality to her photograph series. It has some dream space filled feeling that is often found in films. The author has formed a unique artistic style which reflects romantic personification of modern society. Her works talk about an emotional state of an individual, which is still separated from urbanistic, civilized, demographic influences that is akin to modern times. The photographs reflect states of reminiscence, recollection or associations of their subjects. These states are conveyed through the prism of youthfulness, feminism, generation change or historical personal experience. In this cosmopolitic globalization context the works of Kristina Sereikaite attracts with emotional subjectivism which is nevertheless cohesive with modern European globalistic identity".
Critics by Egle Jaskuniene
"In Kristina Sereikaitė’s photographs one enters a misty oneiric space, which is home to both cold ghostly beauty and vaguely uncanny atmosphere of a horror movie. The photographs’ settings are meticulously premeditated; there is nothing accidental here, not even a slightest hint of documentality. Some of the images look like stills from the films of masters of poetic cinema, while others bring to mind Victorian spirit photography. Sereikaitė’s series do not have a plot in the traditional sense, yet they still function only as a whole, whose internal links the viewer must restore, as if rotating the film projector reel. The focal point of the series I Am. I Will. is the female and her various culturally entrenched “unsafe”, “nature-like” states – from pregnancy to possession and insanity. Intense feminine energy pervades not only the protagonists of the imaginary movie themselves, but also the interiors and the objects in them, producing a sense of weightlessness and a presentiment of danger. The female figures of different ages are simultaneously recognisable and absolutely anonymous and generalised".
Critics by Jurij Dopbriakov
“The author's narrative photo layout in itself creates the secret of intuition, allowing the viewer to find the answer without closing the trap of fantasy. Looking at the K. Sereikaite’s photographs you can imagine an entire audio track, a variable amount of dead silence to the restless murmur of wind curtains and terrible screaming.”
Critics by Gytis Skudzinskas
"The author has formed a unique artistic style which reflects romantic personification of modern society. Her works talks about individual emotional state, which is still separated from urbanistic, civilized, demographic influences that is akin to modern times. The photographs reflect states of reminiscence, recollection, associations of their subjects. These states are conveyed through the prism of youthfulness, feminism, generation change or historical personal experience. In this cosmopolitic globalization context the works of Kristina Sereikaite attracts with emotional subjectivism which is cohesive with modern European globalistic identity.
The art of photography by Kristina Sereikaite is marked by stilistic maturity and cosistency. It shows sound artistic logic and purposeful visual mind. The fact that the artist has studied and worked as a film shooter also added some cinematographic quality to her photograph series. It has some dream space filled feeling that is often found in films. The author has formed a unique artistic style which reflects romantic personification of modern society. Her works talk about an emotional state of an individual, which is still separated from urbanistic, civilized, demographic influences that is akin to modern times. The photographs reflect states of reminiscence, recollection or associations of their subjects. These states are conveyed through the prism of youthfulness, feminism, generation change or historical personal experience. In this cosmopolitic globalization context the works of Kristina Sereikaite attracts with emotional subjectivism which is nevertheless cohesive with modern European globalistic identity".
Critics by Egle Jaskuniene
"In Kristina Sereikaitė’s photographs one enters a misty oneiric space, which is home to both cold ghostly beauty and vaguely uncanny atmosphere of a horror movie. The photographs’ settings are meticulously premeditated; there is nothing accidental here, not even a slightest hint of documentality. Some of the images look like stills from the films of masters of poetic cinema, while others bring to mind Victorian spirit photography. Sereikaitė’s series do not have a plot in the traditional sense, yet they still function only as a whole, whose internal links the viewer must restore, as if rotating the film projector reel. The focal point of the series I Am. I Will. is the female and her various culturally entrenched “unsafe”, “nature-like” states – from pregnancy to possession and insanity. Intense feminine energy pervades not only the protagonists of the imaginary movie themselves, but also the interiors and the objects in them, producing a sense of weightlessness and a presentiment of danger. The female figures of different ages are simultaneously recognisable and absolutely anonymous and generalised".
Critics by Jurij Dopbriakov
“The author's narrative photo layout in itself creates the secret of intuition, allowing the viewer to find the answer without closing the trap of fantasy. Looking at the K. Sereikaite’s photographs you can imagine an entire audio track, a variable amount of dead silence to the restless murmur of wind curtains and terrible screaming.”
Critics by Gytis Skudzinskas