My work is collage-like – I use
photographed, scanned images, sometimes I pick up identifiable elements from
art history and incorporate them into my works within a new context. I
combine various mechanical, industrial forms with precise and rich decoration
in traditional and/or new porcelain decorating manner. Unexpected details, polysemantic metaphors,
riddles of shape and contents, the idea that everything is relative - art-kitsch,
beauty-ugliness, reality-dreams. I like my works to be a bit surrealistic and
sentimental, slightly ironical, full of various allusions - historical,
mythological, but mostly – personal.
Dalia
Laučkaitė-Jakimavičienė’s world is full of absurd juxtapositions, strange
metaphors, ambiguous meanings, which can only be grasped intuitively. This is
where the strategy of surrealism begins, the strategy that to a large degree
underpins Dalia Laučkaitė-Jakimavičienė’s work. Her work reflects the impulses
of the subconscious, personal allusions and fantasies. By deconstructing
mass-made decals, the artist creates an individualized world: moreover, over
the last decade, with the help of photographs, she started making special
decals for her own work. She was the first among Lithuanian ceramicists to use
digital technologies, computer software and laser prints, which has enabled her
to design a unique assortment of decals based on autobiographical mythology.
What is most challenging about Dalia Laučkaitė-Jakimavičienė’s work is her
constant act of balancing between the images from art history, with their
beauty, sweetness and kitsch, the surreal world of the subconscious and the
coded autobiographical signs. The artist successfully straddles these diverse
worlds in her art, the overall effect of which is even more enhanced by its
elegant and precise execution. (from: Laima Surgailienė, Biographical Codes in Art, Dalia Laučkaitė-Jakimavičienė / Contemporary Lithuanian Artists,
Vilnius, artseria, 2009)
