Grounded in an understanding of land as a world-making and communicative entity, Janus’ durational installations emerge from conversations with specific landscapes, recently focusing on water and its infrastructures as a medium that entangles bodies, histories, and movements.
Attending to landscapes as material witnesses that preserve traces of events often silenced through processes of historical production and power, her work explores how memory and knowledge can be held, transmitted, and sensed through matter. To converse with the more-than-human, Janus employs dreaming as a millennia-old, cross-cultural epistemic practice, alongside materially grounded methods, where the human body and imagination act as sensing and mediating apparatuses.
Working with the idea of the artwork as a vessel and through an examination of porosity, sculpture is approached as a container for unwritten histories. Through installations that leak, grow, and collapse, Janus seeks to activate embodied experience as a site of knowledge and communication beyond language.
Urtė recently graduated with an MA in Art & Ecology from Goldsmiths, University of London, and currently works as a Junior Fellow at the Centre for Art & Ecology at Goldsmiths. She was selected for the Emerging Artist JCDecaux Art Prize in Vilnius (2023) and is an alumna of the Alexander McQueen Sarabande Foundation in London (2023). Her work has been exhibited with galleries such as (AV17) Gallery, Vilnius (2025); Editorial Projects, Vilnius (2024); Arts SU Gallery Space, London (2024); The National Gallery, Vilnius (2023); and The Alexander McQueen Foundation, London (2023), among others. In addition to her artistic practice, she curates Project Octagon, an outdoor art initiative based at the Anglican Chapel in Nunhead Cemetery, London.