Ruta Jusionyte - Living Within Her Time

Living within her time – Ruta Jusionyte

In this composition, the scene subtly evokes the energy of the Tarot card.

The moment feels suspended in revelation, as though each figure has suddenly been confronted with itself.

The gazes never truly meet, yet everything suggests that an inner shift is underway. At the center, the clock held in the foreground becomes a crucial symbol: it does not measure external time, but the time of awakening and realization. A precise, irreversible instant in which something must be seen, understood, and acknowledged.

Around the table, human and animal figures share the same space, yet their presence remains enigmatic, slightly displaced from ordinary reality. The hybrid creatures observe in silence, like witnesses to a deeper truth that can no longer be ignored. The objects - the meal, the glasses, the remnants left behind - evoke a familiar domestic scene charged with invisible tension, as though everyday life itself were concealing an imminent transformation.

The work speaks of awakening: the moment when illusions begin to fall away, when roles fracture, and when each being is called to hear something greater than itself.

It is an intense and necessary inner passage toward a new form of lucidity.

Ruta Jusionyte has developed a body of work that is instantly recognizable, at the crossroads of Neo-Expressionism and Magical Realism. Born in 1978 in Lithuania, she lives and works in France and has established herself as a significant figure on the contemporary European art scene.

Her work explores the relationships between humans and animals, in compositions where figures intertwine, respond to one another, and protect each other. Horses, hares, elephants, and hybrid creatures embody inner forces, between instinct and consciousness. Through a warm palette and dense materiality, she develops a powerful pictorial language, both accessible and deeply symbolic.

Awarded the Académie des Beaux-Arts Prize in 2019, Ruta Jusionyte is now sought after by collectors drawn to a form of painting where emotion and visual intensity converge.