Agnė Jokšė: REALITY CRACKS

Agnė Jokšė’s first solo exhibition in Sweden centres around a new film work titled Careerist (2026), in which a newly developed script, narrated as a voiceover by the artist, recontextualises visual footage filmed in a Lithuanian quarry several years prior. Conceptually and visually, the footage and voiceover align uncannily – seemingly too perfectly harmonized not to have been produced in tandem – adding to the quiet suspense of a reality that is becoming slippery and unreliable.

In Jokšė’s practice, language is used as an investigative tool for the artist’s introspective process and a material output which reveals linguistic and systemic limitations. Through the script of Daring Dreams (2022), Jokše implements a countermodel to the gendered elements of grammar in Lithuanian, inscribing an alternative grammar. Within the universe of this filmwork, Joǩse’s model for a non-binary Lithuanian language becomes reality: a systemic shift. The breaking down of language into its composite parts, like the rocks into smaller stones, is a recurring strategy for Jokšė. Through text and image, Jokšė constructs new grammatical and linguistic frameworks to investigate and critically portray the conditions of language itself.

Agnė Jokšė (b. 1993) is an artist and writer currently based in Vilnius. Using the tools characteristic to autoethnography, Jokšė tells stories in which personal experiences and past events related to contemplations of love, intimacy, relations and friendship intertwine with imaginative reflections. Works in the mediums of video and performative text often investigate questions concerning parallel histories, compassion, entangled relations, queerness and language.

Jokšė has exhibited at Palais de Tokyo; E-flux Screening Room New York; Kogo Gallery; Cell Project Space; Editorial; Kunsthal Charlottenborg; Whitechapel Gallery; GIBCA and the Baltic Triennial.

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