August 7–30, 2025, Šiauliai Art Gallery presents the exhibition “LOST IN CIRCUS” by Šiauliai-born artist Simona Bagdonaitė–Gubinienė.
The opening will take place on Thursday, August 7, at 5:30 p.m. Admission to the opening is free of charge.
LOST IN CIRCUS
This exhibition is a surreal world of a clown menagerie, where grotesque, irony, and poetry merge into one organic carnival.
Each work is like a separate creature, torn from a dream, a circus, or the labyrinths of our subconscious.
The exhibition speaks of uncomfortable beauty, of the clown’s mask that everyone wears – even the most serious person.
It’s about the secret desire to preserve that small absurd world within ourselves.
When a smile becomes merely a reflex resembling stage makeup, and laughter rings hollow.
It is a story about being lost between role and reality, between the noise of colors and the quiet within.
It is a journey through the gaze of a clown, in whose world the circus is no longer entertainment, but a labyrinth of states of being.
Here, smiles widen suspiciously, and laughter echoes like emptiness.
The colors are bright and shiny, yet their meaning slips between irony, grotesque, and inner experience.
Lost in Circus invites you into a distorted, dreamlike reality where clowns, Siamese beings, deformed animals, and human body transformations merge into a strange circus universe.
Grotesque becomes an aesthetic, and irony – a tender confession.
Some works (Two-Headed Boy, Circus Siameses, or Elephantess) speak directly about duality, deformation, and the limits of identity.
Man Baby Clown intertwines infantilism with grotesque; Strongman in Drag blends narratives of power, gender, and role.
Sacred Clown tells of the paradoxes of human nature, of the sanctity hidden within mockery.
In the exhibition’s narrative, we glimpse human fragility behind the masks, the silent depth that remains when the music stops and the illusion dissipates.
The character’s absurdity and the melancholy of everyday life ask: how much authenticity remains in us when we learn to be seen?
Through the metaphor of the circus, we see ourselves – where bright colors hide silence, and a forced smile turns into a quiet confession.
It is an invitation to look into your own inner circus and meet the grotesque clown we all secretly carry within.
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