Curator Rūta Matulevičiūtė:

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Zep Tepi refers to the primordial time in Ancient Egyptian mythology. It is the time of the gods, where linear existence bends into a cyclical, eternal existence of everything simultaneously. Imagine the Biblical Book of Genesis or the Big Bang describing not an ancient event but an ongoing mechanism of reality's emergence.

The solo exhibition by Kristina Asinus, represents an entry into the artist's vast archives of knowledge. In the "Zep Tepi" exhibition, Asinus explores the all-pervasive eternal first time, contemplating transcendence and immersion into the plane of collective existence arising from this timeless state.

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Kristina Asinus's figurative artwork reflects her engagement with the profound dimensions of reality and hidden memories within cultures and traditions. Her artworks convey attention to these deeper layers of reality and ancient traditions. The artist's visual symbols serve as archetypal keys in contemporary form, found in the deeper layers of human psychology. These symbols can be identified in the iconography of ancient Egypt and other ancient traditions. Ancient cities, unexplored by archaeologists, lie beneath the roots of the Amazon jungle.

Asinus, with her distinctive painting technique, depicts the green lushness of reality emerging from the eternal ocean of consciousness, the source of everything, marked by the blue color of the first layer. Her almost relief-like paintings preserve information and stories like the engravings of ancient civilizations. By depicting the greenery of the Amazon jungle and the tattooed figures surrounding it, the artist references the collective consciousness expressions of the planet's 9 billion inhabitants. Shiny red crystals and white Lemurian quartz speak of the planet's richness in geological materials and infinite wisdom, forgotten and hidden beneath layers of everyday life and socio-cultural constructs.

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In the eternity of Zep Tepi, time stops. Here, an ancient Lithuanian and a king of South American civilization, all of them, paradoxically meet. Beyond the mind governed by linear time lies eternity, the primordial ocean, the memory of the forgotten Philosopher's Stone. Existing paradigms change, but human nature remains the same in reality and Kristina Asinus's paintings.