Indrė Šerpytytė

Indrė Šerpytytė (; born 1983) is a Lithuanian artist living and working in London. Šerpytytė is concerned with the impact of war on history and perception, and works with photography, sculpture, installation and painting.

Her work is held by the Victoria and Albert Museum, Roberts Institute of Art and Derwent London and have been exhibited at Tate Modern, The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), The Photographers' Gallery, Museum of Contemporary Art in Kraków and Museum Folkwang, among others.

Life and work Šerpytytė was born in 1983 in Palanga, Lithuania and moved to London at the age of 14. From the same series, Forest Brothers (2009) looks at the Lithuanian forest as a place both to hide and to disappear as it revisits the environments once home to the period's most active resistance force.

A State of Silence A State of Silence (2006) pays tribute to the artist's father, Albinas Šerpytis, Lithuania's Head of Government Security, who died in suspicious circumstances in a car accident in the early hours of October 13, 2001.

2 Seconds of Colour The large scale photographic palettes of 2 Seconds of Colour arise from a Google Image search for the term ‘Isis beheadings’. The works present the patchwork of rectangular placeholders automatically generated while the page is loading, their colours extracted from the 'black of the executioner’s garments, the orange of the victim’s jumpsuit [or] the blue of the sky’. Responding to the oversaturated media landscape in which they find themselves, the images 'seeking to break the closed circuit between violence that is thoughtlessly executed and violence that is thoughtlessly consumed'.

150 mph The 150 mph paintings depart from images of individuals jumping from New York's World Trade Center during the September 11 attacks. Each image’s human subject has been removed leaving the architecture itself as sole "witness and unintentional memorial."

Publications

Publications by Šerpytytė (1944 – 1991). London: self-published, 2010. . Includes an interview with Martin Barnes and a text by Nigel Rolfe.

Publications with others Pokario Istorijos / Post-war Stories. Kaunas, Lithuania: Lithuanian Photographers’ Association Kaunas Department, 2015. By Šerpytytė ("Forest Brothers: Former NKVD-MVD-MGB-KGB Buildings"), Claudia Heinermann ("Wolf Children") and Michal Iwanowski ("Clear of People"). . With a text by Sonya Winterberg ("Wolf Children"). Published to accompany an exhibition. English and Lithuanian language.

Awards Jerwood Photography Award, Jerwood Visual Arts, Jerwood Foundation, 2006 The Terry O’Neill Award, 2007 The Fujifilm Distinction Award, 2008 National Media Museum Photography Bursary, 2009 Hoopers Gallery Prize, 2009 Metro Imaging Prize, 2009 Magenta Foundation Flash Forward Prize, 2010 Nominated for the Rencontres d’Arles Discovery Award by Simon Baker, Tate Senior Curator, International Art (Photography), 2011 Shortlisted for The Arts Foundation’s Still Life Photography Award, 2013

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions The Embassy of the Republic of Lithuania, London, 2009. Camera 16, Milan, 2010 Vilniaus Fotografijos Galerija, Vilnius, 2011 The Photographers' Gallery, London, 2010 Ffotogallery, Penarth, 2013; Kraków Photomonth Festival, Museum of Contemporary Art in Kraków (MOCAK), 2015

Group exhibitions The Photographers' Gallery, London Victoria and Albert Museum, London Rencontres d’Arles, Arles, France, 2011 National Gallery of Art, Vilnius, 2013 Street Level Photoworks, Glasgow, UK Conflict, Time, Photography, Tate Modern, London, 2014–2015. Museum Folkwang, Essen, 2015 Tbilisi Photo Festival Ocean of Images, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, 2015–2016

Collections Šerpytytė 's work is held in the following public collections: Victoria and Albert Museum, London The collection of Jay Jopling, London Derwent London, London