Algirdas Jakas

Algirdas Jakas (b. 1987) is an artist currently based in Vilnius. He studied printmaking at the Vilnius Academy of Arts and sculpture at the Hamburg University of the Arts (HFBK). Jakas’ artistic practice focuses on the synthesis of anxiety and various forms of self-diagnosis. Using materials and techniques associated with hobbies or therapeutic activities – such as drawing and DIY aesthetics – he explores individual self-help practices to create “instruments of anxiety.” He is also interested in the translucency of the body and its datafication, as well as in technologies of hope. This often relates to the history and specificity of the project site and becomes an additional layer of the artwork.