Orion
Cedric Bardawil Gallery
London, 2024

"Egle Jauncems makes rooms out of art, and art out of rooms. By recuperating the debris not of the street but the alienated contours of our everyday lives — the surgical mask left in our pocket, the cardboard packaging in the baseball caps we buy, and the kitsch decorations we play with to delight our children — her work reimagines the function of waste and beauty in a postlapsarian consumer age."

Exhibition text: Matthew Holman

Pattern Untitled
San Mei Gallery
London (solo), 2024

"In the window display, Jauncems presents Untitled, a piece from a recent series of works influenced by Paulinas Kaluina (1933-2017). Kaluina produced over two hundred sheets of drawings of various weaving patterns that sadly were never materialised. Intrigued by Kaluina’s personality and the playful nature of the patterns, Jauncems reinterpreted these drawings. Weaving together paper and canvas has opened the artist’s approach to painting and application techniques, allowing Jauncems to play with the language of symbols used by another person from another time."

Shuttle and Twill
Anastazija and Antanas Tamošaičiai Gallery 'Židinys'
Vilnius (group), 2024

"The exhibition presents new works by contemporary artists Ieva Rojūtė, Morta Jonynaitė and Eglė Jauncems that express and discuss the concerns, joys, hopes and intuitions of the past and present worlds. Providing a complimentary energy are Lithuanian folk artefacts and works by Anastazija Tamošaitienė from the collection of the Židinys Gallery. There are no leading voices in this polyphony, instead, an endless drone of something painfully familiar and yet still undiscovered."

Text: Paulius Andriuškevičius
Artists: Morta Jonynaitė, Eglė Jauncems, Ieva Rojūtė, Anastazija Tamošaitienė
Curation: Paulius Andriuškevičius
Photos: Visvaldas Morkevičius

Antigone: Women in Fibre Art
Richard Saltoun Gallery
London (group), 2023

The principal aspects of Egle Jauncems’ practice develop through a continuous search for the parallels between the rational and irrational, contemporary and primitive, and the relevant and irrelevant. The starting point of her visual analysis often revolves around found imagery, pieces of text and overheard conversations. Later, she transforms these fragments – through the act of painting, drawing and stitching – into objects, or even beings, of pathos and irony.

Artists: Egle Jauncems, Jagoda Buic, Barbara Levittoux-Swiderska, Magdalena Abakanowicz, Ewa Pachucka and Anna Perach

Tapestry from an Asteroid
Foreign & Domestic
New York (solo), 2023

"Tapestry of an Asteroid makes for a funny and strange cosmos, not necessarily dark and by no means harmless. Matter-of-factness paired with play in the face of impending nuclear annihilation suggests more than an ironic shrug - much like Loriot’s miniature power plant, her work enrobes serious business with play (poof). Reverberating within the confines of geopolitical locality and historical linearity, her paintings strive to dodge time in favour of a-chronology and subliminal dissonance (your ass gotta go). Working with an awareness of the absurdity of human life and social interaction, she tacitly weaves together threads of collective history and biography, implicitly referring today’s zeitgeist while explicitly enchanting the imperfections in its fabric."

Exhibition text: Isabelle Utzinger-Son

Some Images, Some Manuals
Palfrey Space
London, 2021

"Operating the field of painting like the frame of a sturdy loom, Some Images, Some Manuals suggests a space of broad and fathomless encounters - one that simultaneously encases its conversations and lets them boundlessly reverberate.This structure unmakes the artist herself: lacing depersonalised scraps of her own biography into the historical frames of men, Jauncems’ woven pantings cradle masculine frailty and point to the holes in the fabric of hierarchical, finite representation, leaving objects whose philosophical reflection is rooted in the interplay between muted colours and shoes, grounded in the physicality of suture."

Exhibition text: Isabelle Utzinger

Patterns
Paulinas Kaluina House
Skapiškis, Lithuania (solo), 2021

"The latest project of Jauncems takes inspiration from the life and work of Paulinas Kaluina (1933-2017), a Lithuanian sacristan and shoemaker, who devoted his life to creating new weaving patterns. Over his lifetime, Kaluina produced more than 200 patterns, but never attempted to realize them on fabric. Most of his patterns are included in the book Love for Mother – In Weaving patterns (ed. Dalia Bernotaite-Bieliauskiene, 2004). From contemporary perspective, the patterns appear to be very modern and almost resemble computer-generated images. However, the humble personality of the folk artist and his lonesome lifestyle is what inspired Jauncems’ latest project."

Text: Exhibition text: Juste Jonutyte