Indrė Šerpytytė (; born 1983) is a Lithuanian artist living and working in London. Šerpytytė is concerned with the impact of war on history and perception,Goze, Evita. "Interview with Indre Šerpytytė." FK Magazine. August 24, 2015. and works with photography, sculpture, installation and painting.

Her work is held by the Victoria and Albert Museum, Roberts Institute of Art and Derwent London and have been exhibited at Tate Modern, The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), The Photographers' Gallery, Museum of Contemporary Art in Kraków and Museum Folkwang, among others.Meilutė, Ieva, ed. "Poetic Documents, Exhibition Catalogue." 2012.

Life and work Šerpytytė was born in 1983 in Palanga, Lithuania and moved to London at the age of 14. She received her MA in photography from The Royal College of Art, London and her BA in editorial photography from the University of Brighton.

(1944 – 1991) Former NKVD - MVD - MGB - KGB Buildings (2009 - 2015, ongoing) centres on the after-effects of World War II in Lithuania. These black and white images tell an almost forgotten story of the domestic conflicts of war, in which people were interrogated and tortured in what were once family homes. Rather than representing the buildings themselves, or showing the inhabitants or victims directly, Šerpytytė uses commissioned, hand-carved wooden models based on archival research and site visits to comment on both the physical and humanitarian scale of the conflict and to recall events that have faded over time."TateShots: Indre Serpytye." Vimeo. December 2014.Singer, Jane. "People: Indre Serpytyte." Editorial. Fitzrovia Journal, October 2015. October 2015."Indre Serpytyte Biography." James Hyman Gallery. From the same series, Forest Brothers (2009) looks at the Lithuanian forest as a place both to hide and to disappear as it revisits the environments once home to the period's most active resistance force."(1944 – 1991)." Artist Website.

A State of Silence A State of Silence (2006) pays tribute to the artist's father, Albinas Šerpytis, Lithuania's Head of Government Security, who died in suspicious circumstances in a car accident in the early hours of October 13, 2001."Exhibitions." Camera 16. September 17, 2010.Colberg, Joerg. "A Conversation with Indre Serpytyte [sic]." Conscientious Extended. June 21, 2010.

2 Seconds of Colour The large scale photographic palettes of 2 Seconds of Colour arise from a Google Image search for the term ‘Isis beheadings’. The works present the patchwork of rectangular placeholders automatically generated while the page is loading, their colours extracted from the 'black of the executioner’s garments, the orange of the victim’s jumpsuit [or] the blue of the sky’. Responding to the oversaturated media landscape in which they find themselves, the images 'seeking to break the closed circuit between violence that is thoughtlessly executed and violence that is thoughtlessly consumed'."2 Seconds of Colour" Artist Website.

150 mph The 150 mph paintings depart from images of individuals jumping from New York's World Trade Center during the September 11 attacks. Each image’s human subject has been removed leaving the architecture itself as sole "witness and unintentional memorial.""150 mph" Artist Website.

Publications

Publications by Šerpytytė (1944 – 1991). London: self-published, 2010. . Includes an interview with Martin Barnes and a text by Nigel Rolfe.

Publications with others Pokario Istorijos / Post-war Stories. Kaunas, Lithuania: Lithuanian Photographers’ Association Kaunas Department, 2015. By Šerpytytė ("Forest Brothers: Former NKVD-MVD-MGB-KGB Buildings"), Claudia Heinermann ("Wolf Children") and Michal Iwanowski ("Clear of People"). . With a text by Sonya Winterberg ("Wolf Children"). Published to accompany an exhibition. English and Lithuanian language.

Awards Jerwood Photography Award, Jerwood Visual Arts, Jerwood Foundation, 2006 The Terry O’Neill Award, 2007 The Fujifilm Distinction Award, 2008 National Media Museum Photography Bursary, 2009 Hoopers Gallery Prize, 2009 Metro Imaging Prize, 2009 Magenta Foundation Flash Forward Prize, 2010 Nominated for the Rencontres d’Arles Discovery Award by Simon Baker, Tate Senior Curator, International Art (Photography), 2011 Shortlisted for The Arts Foundation’s Still Life Photography Award, 2013"Winners & Shortlisted Artists of the Fellowships." The Arts Foundation. 2013.

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions The Embassy of the Republic of Lithuania, London, 2009."Construction of Memory in Indrė Šerpytytė’s Photographic Work." Embassy of the Republic of Lithuania in United Kingdom. September 23, 2009. Camera 16, Milan, 2010"Indre Serpytyte Still Silence." Camera 16 Exhibitions Vilniaus Fotografijos Galerija, Vilnius, 2011"Indrė Šerpytytė '1944 - 1991' at Vilnius Photography Gallery." Lithuanian Photography. August 24, 2011. The Photographers' Gallery, London, 2010"Indre Serpytyte at The Photographers' Gallery." ArtRabbit. Ffotogallery, Penarth, 2013;"Indre Serpytyte – Solo Exhibition." Ffotogallery. September 7, 2013.Duckhouse, Rory. "Indre Serpytyte: Solo Exhibition Reviewed" Photomonitor Kraków Photomonth Festival, Museum of Contemporary Art in Kraków (MOCAK), 2015

Group exhibitions The Photographers' Gallery, London Victoria and Albert Museum, London"Collection Search: Serpytyte, Indre." V&A (The Victoria and Albert Museum). Rencontres d’Arles, Arles, France, 2011"Exhibitions: Indre Serpytyte." Les Rencontres D'Arles Rencontres D'Arles. July 4, 2011. National Gallery of Art, Vilnius, 2013 Street Level Photoworks, Glasgow, UK Conflict, Time, Photography, Tate Modern, London, 2014–2015. Museum Folkwang, Essen, 2015 Tbilisi Photo Festival"Festival Programme." Tbilisi Photo Festival 2015. September 2015. Ocean of Images, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, 2015–2016"Ocean of Images: New Photography 2015." MoMA."Ocean of Images" Wall Street International

Collections Šerpytytė 's work is held in the following public collections: Victoria and Albert Museum, London Roberts Institute of Art, London"David Roberts Art Foundation Set To Open In Camden." Artlyst. September 18, 2012. The collection of Jay Jopling, London Derwent London, London"Art: A State of Silence (Telephone) by Indre Serpytyte at Angel Building." Derwent London. 2010.

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