For Riga Contemporary 2025, Drifts presents a duo show by Lithuanian artists – Šarūnas Baltrukonis (b. 1998) and Gasparas Zondovas (b. 1999) – both artists are interested in materiality of the work, its textures and the new ways of rethinking traditional media. In the show, the artists present their collaborative works Thermal landscape (2025) and Thermal map (2025) based on thermoforming – a well-known industrial technique. Even though associated with disposable, the thermoforming allows the artists to encapsulate the parts of their creative process: drawings from sketchbooks, leftover dried paint. Preserving clay bricks or traces of paint becomes an intuitive gesture of safeguarding the soft, obscure remnants of artistic work. These works embody the dual nature of record and relic, and prompt to contemplate the uncertainty.

Presentation and check-list for Riga Contemporary 2025.

Preview & Opening: Thursday, 10 July 2025
Public days: Friday – Sunday, 11 – 13 July

Visit us at booth 2.13

The gallery’s programme is supported by Vilnius City Municipality

Photos by Kristine Madjare