Deimantas narkevicius biography

Deimantas Narkevicius (b. 1964) is an artist and filmmaker born in 1964 in Utena, currently based in Vilnius.

Biography.

Biography.

Trained as a sculptor, Deimantas Narkevicius then developed his work towards narrative through film and video.

Deimantas Narkevičius (born in Utena, Lithuanian SSR) is one of the most consistent and widely recognised Lithuanian artists on the international.

Deimantas Narkevičius was born in in Utena in Lithuania and lives and works in Vilnius, Lithuania.

Deimantas Narkevicius (b.

He graduated sculpture at Vilnius Academy of Fine Arts and spent a year in London in 1992/93, which affected his later interest in site-specific art and concern with the concept of place in a broader discursive sense. Since the late Nineties he mostly works in film and video, experimenting with the film structure and thematizing the weight of subjective memories and personal revisions of the History.

As the artist has himself stated a number of times, his films in a certain way are extended sculptures, not only closely adjusted to the physical sites of their installation, but also thematically departing from very specific personal circumstances or experiences.

Nevertheless, working in different film formats, often inserting fragments of other media – drawing, found photograph and footage into his films, Narkevicius expands temporal and spatial boundari