Grounded in an understanding of matter as a world-making and communicative entity, Janus’ durational installations emerge from conversations with specific landscapes. Recent work focuses on water and its infrastructures as a medium that entangles bodies, histories, and movements, flowing, leaking, and seeping through processes of historical production and power. To engage with the more-than-human, Janus draws on dreaming as a millennia-old, cross-cultural epistemic practice, alongside materially grounded methods through which the body and imagination become sites of sensing and mediation.
Working with the artwork as a vessel and through an exploration of porosity, Janus approaches sculpture as a container for unwritten histories. Through installations that leak, grow, and collapse, she 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.