#173 Monika Plays Herself
Gintė Regina
19-27 Jul 2025 Thu-Sun 12 - 6 pm or by appointment
I present to you two drawings, a lightbox, a video essay and a film. I like to think of all my output — be it experimental videos, fiction films, drawings, writing, even dancing — as part of the same universe of ideas, inseparable from the life I live. This show is no exception; it follows two characters, Monika and I, as we grow and go through life. We are friends in life and in fiction. One influences the other, expanding both.
The films presented in the exhibition have a story. They play on the hour and at half past the hour. I suggest you watch them at these times.
The book selection for this exhibition focuses on coming of age narratives, in which young women discover themselves and the world around them, often finding a need to make sense of experience through the making of things. These authors are very important to me.
I thank Rae Jones, Tim Hattrick and the rest of the Outpost team for bringing this exhibition into being. The show was curated with the help of Ulijona Odišarija and Benjamin Arthur Brown. I thank them and all my friends, who inspire me in art as in life.
Gintė Regina, Norwich, July 2025
Image by Gillies Adamson Semple
Gintė Regina
(b.1995, Lithuania) works in artist film and narrative fiction. Raised in the UK, her short films have screened at the BFI, Whitechapel Gallery, Aesthetica and other film festivals. She held solo shows at GAO (London, 2018) and CCA Derry~Londonderry (2020). In 2024, her films screened at the National Gallery of Art in Vilnius. Her work has been supported by Arts Council England and the Lithuanian Film Centre. She currently lives in Vilnius and is developing her debut feature script.
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