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The exhibition Sensitive Landscapes. Territories Seen Through the Female Gaze at Espace H2O presents a collection of paintings and an installation conceived as a poetic journey through landscape, exploring how nature reflects the inner world and the multiple layers of identity. Inspired by walks through the surroundings of Differdange and the Luxembourg countryside, memories of childhood spent by the Nemunas River in Lithuania, and travels across different parts of the world, Asta Kulikauskaitė interweaves places, impressions, and emotional memories through a subtle harmony of color and form.

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From the very beginning of her artistic journey – both during her studies at Vilnius Academy of Arts and throughout her later artistic practice – one of the central fields of Asta Kulikauskaitė’s research has remained the figure of woman. This theme appears throughout her work both directly and subconsciously, evolving alongside changing visual narratives while never losing its inner axis. In preparing this exhibition, one important source of inspiration also became the legend of the Wild Woman of Lasauvage, dating back to 1634. It tells of an untamed woman living at the margins of society yet deeply connected to nature. This archetypal figure permeates the entire exhibition and inspires the artist to place the female body at the center of landscape – even when it is not directly depicted on the canvas. The exhibition speaks of female strength, of the feminine nature of the natural world, and of the inner force contained within sensitivity.

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The exhibition opens with the early work The Body (2001), where brown and ochre lines on a white canvas form a free, expressive female body, far removed from academic precision or idealization. Its undulating, irregular contours evoke both bodily freedom and an imagined landscape: mountains, lakes, rivers, and forests seem to emerge from the folds of the body, as if body and nature shared a single breath. This work becomes the symbolic point of departure for the exhibition – the beginning of a sensitive, respectful, and intuitive gaze, and a subtle allusion to the Wild Woman of Lasauvage.

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This intuitive thread leads the viewer from one exhibition room to another through landscapes where memories, intuitions, and traces of the wild woman occasionally appear. In the most recent paintings, vivid colors intertwine with earthy tones; free lines and expressive brushstrokes create vibrant, pulsating spaces, while small-format insertions appearing within large canvases lend the works a sculptural quality and function as references to past memories, myths, and legends of magical beings hidden within nature. These colorful and sensitive landscapes lead toward the installation Nemunas (2026), presented in the second room – a work whose title directly refers to the river along whose banks the artist spent her childhood. Yet the installation speaks more broadly: it becomes a pathway of landscape extending across the room, connecting different points in space, different temporalities, and inner states.

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In this way, Nemunas becomes a link between the artist’s past and present, a symbol of creative exploration – a life trajectory that, like a river, continuously meanders and never truly ends. The installation extends this investigation of the relationship between nature and the human being: fluid lines, overlapping colors, and spontaneous gestures convey the rhythm of light, movement, and natural energy.

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Each work in this exhibition becomes a sensory territory where landscape is not an object to be mastered, but a space to be experienced, felt, and respected. Here memory, body, and perception merge, giving life to personally lived landscapes in which feminine sensitivity becomes a guide for vision and emotion.

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Sensitive Landscapes. Territories Seen Through the Female Gaze invites the viewer to follow the thread of an inner journey, to sense the continuous dialogue between body and territory, and to discover a world where memory, freedom, and feminine nature meet at every moment.

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Curator Julia Palmeirao

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Member of AICA/International Association of Art Critics and C-E-A/French Association of Exhibition Curators

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