Monika Plioplyte

I For Nested Pattern / photo-based performance / archival inkjet prints / ED of 10 each / 2020 - on going

I For Nested Pattern' is an ongoing series where I document myself through photo-based performances in natural environments that resemble landscapes where I grew up and carry sentimental longing for a place or a past. Reflecting on mythology and how it constitutes an earlier form of communication that was anchored in the body and intimately connected to the enactment of rituals, I use performance as a way to connect personal spiritualism and the idea of rituals based in a different concept of time - a cyclical time. Cyclical time is about regeneration and rebirth instead of a linear time where it all leads toward some kind of end. I used 'Nested Pattern', a term meaning pattern inside a pattern, along with the idea of the structural patterns of DNA, where information is encoded in genetic material that is the universal language for all life, as a way to connect with my ancestors and the knowledge that's been forgotten but not gone.