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A40＿Kyojima Atlas

Ieva Blazeviciute@Publicis Wall Gallery (offsite), posters around Kyojima, travelling book (TBC)

Kyojima Atlas is an on-going project about the artist and maker community in Kyojima.
The project attempts to visually map out the area by photographing its people and the connections between them. Each person is introduced based on the artist’s personal experiences of meeting them, mimicking the way that any newcomer to Kyojima may be exposed to when visiting the area for the first time. The resulting visual work is a web of close-up portraits, stories and layers of an already existing close-knit community as told by a stranger, who is slowly becoming a friend.

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Ieva Blazeviciute is a Lithuanian artist, currently based in Tokyo.

Born in 1991 in Lithuania, Ieva graduated from graphic and media design at the London College of Communication (University of the Arts, London).

Ieva’s work mixes a variety of medias, ranging from painting and ink drawings to mixed media photographic work that uses layers of different textures with traditional art mediums. An avid traveller and having lived in multiple countries, Ieva fuses a variety of cultural reference points in her work, creating often philosophical art pieces that draw inspiration both from the Eastern and the Western worlds.

Her work has been featured by Adobe Creative Cloud, Vice, Noisey, i-D and has been exhibited in Japan, Lithuania and the U.K. In 2020 she also released a book “Post Soviet” that delves into the experiences of youth growing up in the post-soviet countries of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia.