Algirdas Jakas is a Vilnius-based artist working with a diverse array of materials that he combines with drawing. His practice revolves around the topics of elasticity, transparency of bodies, alternative self-help practices, and neo-hypochondria. He has participated in a number of two-person shows with Eglė Ruibytė at Atletika Gallery and in Lentvaris, an off-space event organised by the Lokomotif project space. Algirdas recently took part in a group show at XY Gallery in Olomouc, A. Mončys Art Museum in Palanga, and in a RUPERT AEP final show. He graduated in Printmaking from the Vilnius Academy of Arts and in Sculpture from the Hamburg Academy of Fine Arts (HFBK).

Worry bone, 2022, painting, paper, clay 
Worry bone (2), 2022, painting, paper, clay
Worry bone (3), 2022, painting, clay, fire
Hermit Crab, 2022, epoxy resin, acrylic

Drawings fused together with bony structures appear like hybrid instruments, “stands” for diagnosis, which at the same time become tools for digging or drilling oneself out. Bright blots pulse through the images in unknown epithelial locations, forcing kneading and crumpling on almost every part of the body. Anxiety mingles with hypochondria and the wavy, segmented backbones, like some sort of psychogeological samples, call for a closer inspection as if they were just extracted from the spots of greatest concern.