On 4 November at 6:00 PM, we invite you to Antanas Jasenka’s interdisciplinary painting and music project, where image and sound come together in a shared narrative exploring transformation, identity, and the images constructed by society.
Here, Judas is approached not as a specific historical or religious figure, but as a cultural archetype and a structure of projection. The woman becomes a surface onto which society projects its assumptions and expectations. In this context, the “bad woman” is not a moral judgement, but a concept of social projection — a constructed figure.
In the exhibition, Judas becomes not only a symbol of betrayal, but also a means of questioning how cultural myths are created and transmitted, how their meanings change over time, and what happens when familiar roles are reversed.
The exhibition will be presented by Assoc. Prof. Dr Dalia Karatajienė.
At 7:00 PM, music by Antanas Jasenka for percussion and electronics will be performed. The composition extends the exhibition’s exploration into the acoustic and electroacoustic realm. Its title, “Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation,” refers to the physical principle behind the operation of a laser — the amplification of light through stimulated emission of radiation.
The work will be performed by percussionist Arkadijus Gotesmanas and composer Antanas Jasenka (electronic instruments).
The concert will be presented by Sol Artis and pianist Eglė Kasteckaitė.
Painting and music represent two distinct yet interconnected forms of transformation: the physical energy of sound and the cultural energy of meaning. Just as the image reveals an amplified myth, sound demonstrates how, within a resonant system, an impulse can be transformed beyond its original form.
The painting exhibition and concert create a shared conceptual space. Image and sound do not illustrate one another; instead, they operate as two distinct paradigms of transformation.
In painting, historical and cultural narratives are transformed, while in music it is the physical impulse that undergoes change. In one case, meaning is transformed; in the other, the form of matter. Yet both raise the same question: what happens to a phenomenon when it enters a system that amplifies it?
The structures of the exhibition and concert are connected by the principle of resonance — not only in an acoustic sense, but also philosophically. An idea, image, or narrative that is repeatedly reproduced and amplified begins to operate independently: it separates from its original source and acquires new social, political, or cultural power.
The exhibition and concert are united by the principle of resonance: painting amplifies cultural meaning, while music amplifies physical sound. In both cases, what matters is not merely an increase in intensity, but the transformation through which the original phenomenon becomes something else.
The project invites us to ask whether guilt lies in the event itself, in its memory, or in an image of that event that has been repeated and amplified for long enough.
We look forward to welcoming you at Vilnius Town Hall (Didžioji St. 31, Vilnius) on 4 November.
6:00 PM — Exhibition opening
7:00 PM — Concert | presented by pianist Eglė Kasteckaitė
Admission is free.
Concert organisers: VšĮ Sol Artis, Vilnius Town Hall
Concert partner: LRT