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About the Artist
Kamile creates work that sits at the intersection of playfulness and confrontation, blending vibrant colours, textured mark-making and street art influences with commentary on pop culture, politics and everyday absurdity. Her pieces are bold, sarcastic and often unapologetically provocative, inviting viewers into a space where humour, critique and vulnerability collide. Over the years, her practice has moved fluidly from expressive portraits and mixed-media chaos to minimalist, modern text-based works, all while retaining her distinctive sharpness and visual punch. Exhibited internationally and collected worldwide, her art sparks debate as much as it attracts attention—exactly as she intends.
About the Artwork
‘Happy Face’ by Kamile Lukrecija Lukosiute is an audacious unmasking of emotion - a portrait that dismantles the illusion of composure. What first appears as a face dissolves into chaos, its smile bleeding into abstraction, its cheer fractured by truth. Kamile captures the fragility of performative happiness, the way joy can feel both painted on and torn away. This is not a grin for the viewer - it’s a wound disguised as a gesture, a mirror that refuses to flatter.
The composition hums with tension between beauty and violence. Explosive reds collide with pale pinks, black strokes cut across the surface like suppressed thought, and pastel traces attempt to soften what cannot be softened. The paint drips downward in surrender, suggesting a face eroding under its own weight. What remains is expression in its most primal form - raw, layered, and electric with contradiction. Kamile’s restraint in colour only heightens the emotional noise; the white background becomes an echo chamber for feeling.
In ‘Happy Face’, Kamile Lukrecija Lukosiute distils the uncomfortable duality of contemporary identity - the curated self versus the chaotic truth beneath. The work challenges the viewer to question the meaning of expression when sincerity itself is suspect. It is a painting that hums with exhaustion and defiance, reminding us that even the brightest smiles are stitched from shadows. In her fearless abstraction, Kamile transforms vulnerability into rebellion - a happiness that bleeds, but still stands.
Size: 130 cm x 150 cm
Year: 2023
Materials: Mixed Media on Canvas
Framing: Sold unframed. Contact us at hello@kartugallery.com to arrange a frame that suits your home.
Certificate of Authenticity is included.
