Agnė Šemberaitė (LT). TRANSFORMATION. - 5400 Eur

Title:   Transformation (Nigredo, Albedo, Rubedo).

Year and Place:   2022, Lithuania.

Materials:   Stoneware, engobes, glazes, gold lustre.

Technique:   Hand‑built and partly molded; fired at 1250 °C.

Description:   Created for the 7th Vilnius Ceramic Art Biennial (AL)chemistry, this work is conceived as a sculptural interpretation of the classical alchemical cycle. Nigredo—the blackening—embodies chaos, dissolution, and the dominance of subconscious or destructive forces. Albedo—the whitening—marks the emergence of purification, a phase in which light begins to clarify and transform the darkness. Rubedo—the reddening—culminates in a state of burning toward purity, expressed through golden‑red tones and luminous surfaces.

The work resonates with contemporary reality: the war in Ukraine has cast a once‑stable world into a collective Nigredo, intensifying the longing for the transformative clarity of Albedo. Through material, color, and symbolic progression, the sculpture reflects on crisis, purification, and the fragile hope for renewal.

Exhibition History:   7th Vilnius Ceramics Art Biennial (AL)CHEMIJA, Gallery Arka, Vilnius, Lithuania — Diploma Award (2022);

4th Latvia Ceramics Biennale — Personal exhibition Fear Whispering: A Journey Within, Rothko Museum, Daugavpils, Latvia (2023);

Year of Animal Welfare, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania, Vilnius, Lithuania (2023);

Whispers — Personal exhibition, Kretinga Museum Winter Garden Gallery, Kretinga, Lithuania (2025).

Publication History:   4th Latvia Ceramics Biennale catalogue (2023);

7th Vilnius Ceramics Art Biennial (AL)CHEMIJA catalogue (2022).