Evaldas Jansas

These are the scenes from the routine life of junkies. The author without any scruple, with the cool glance of his camera snap-shoots pricking with syringe, collecting of poppy „milk” in the gardens, and primitive production of hand-made drug. The film is followed by an off-slip naive story of a young girl, who left her school and had no courage to speak into the camera. She tells the story about the adventures of junkies life and misfortunes of her friends. The story ends with her dream to buy a wide-screen TV.

The video work „Personal code” documents the artist’s visits to the bureaucratic institutions trying to acquire the official permit for a child to travel abroad, to write an official apology for committed criminal offence and getting the warning for „inappropriate behavior” while on probation. It is filmed using stable camera, capturing fragmented images and conversations with the employees of the institutions as well as formal procedures.
„The associability of this artist, publicly acknowledged in the video „Personal code”is real and inevitable, therefore – completely organic and fundamental message of this work is critical and ironic; it refers to the absurdity of bureaucracy and the consideration of a person just as a set of formal numbers filling the system” (Renata Dubinskaite „Evaldas Jansas – the innocent hero of video works”).