Neringa Poškutė-Jukumienė’s exhibition “POV”
From 26 February to 29 March, Neringa Poškutė-Jukumienė’s exhibition “POV” is on view at the Exhibition Hall of the Klaipėda Culture Communication Centre (KCCC).
In POV, Neringa Poškutė-Jukumienė adopts a tag widely circulated in meme culture – POV (Point of View) – and repositions it as a performative device for reconsidering the viewer’s role within contemporary jewellery and media culture. In conventional usage, point of view suggests a stable perspective. In meme culture, however, POV operates less as a neutral descriptor and more as a direct address – a signal that asserts: you are in this situation; what you see is your experience. The term collapses distance between image and spectator, staging identification as both invitation and imposition. Within the exhibition, POV is closely tied to corporeality and to the condition of jewellery as a medium. Recognition becomes selective: for some viewers the works immediately ‘click’, for others they remain silent. This divide not only reflects the logic of meme culture but also reveals how contemporary jewellery is often understood through conservative, pre-assigned meanings – particularly those related to wearability and social acceptability. What is considered appropriate to wear, and by whom, quietly frames interpretation.
Irony forms a central axis of the exhibition.
In meme culture, POV is frequently used imprecisely – the image does not necessarily follow the logic of a first-person perspective. This mismatch intensifies irony and exposes the constructed nature of the viewpoint on offer. The proposed perspective may be simulated; the viewer’s experience already staged. In this way, the exhibition enters the field of media critique, examining how images, texts and objects shape and direct perception.
POV unfolds throughout the exhibition in multiple forms: in titles, wall texts, anthropological drawings, and even in moments of deliberate silence. The works do not function as explanations. Instead, they operate as open invitations to experience, to question, and to remain in a position that may feel uncomfortable yet productive.
Neringa Poškutė-Jukumienė works across contemporary jewellery, installation and performance. Her practice explores new modes of research and critique within jewellery through interdisciplinary approaches, addressing both cultural and social questions. She is a doctoral candidate at the Vilnius Academy of Arts and Head of the Metal Art and Jewellery Programme at its Telšiai Faculty. Active internationally, she participates in exhibitions and professional exchanges in Lithuania and abroad. Her research focuses on the shifting relationship between the human body and everyday life, approached through a deconstruction of the term jewellery itself. Jewellery is meant to be worn – or is it? This question underpins her work, alongside an attentiveness to the wearing and wearing-out of the body. In her practice, jewellery moves beyond decoration and becomes a contextual device, extending and complicating the possibilities of personal identity and its expression.
The exhibition is partly supported by the Lithuanian Council for Culture.
Opening hours of the KCCC Exhibition Hall (Didžioji Vandens g. 2, Klaipėda): Wednesday–Sunday 11.00–19.00 (closed on public holidays). Photographs and video will be taken during the exhibition opening. Please note that participants may appear in photographs and video recordings of the event published in various media. Admission to the exhibitions is free during the opening; afterwards there is a charge.