In one of the “Rooms of Secrets” the shadow of a girl gazing toward a mirror window reflecting clouds and the sky keeps her love secret and still knows so little… In Dita’s room, we travel back to the interwar period when a young Jewish girl, Dita, in love with her neighbor Ika, would, in the evenings after turning off the light, look at the window of the house opposite, hoping to see him… The past and the present, the Holocaust that eternally separated the lovers, and a love stronger than death dictated not only the portrait of Ika Grinberg, son of Jokūbas Grinbergas, but also the moods of the scenery of the buildings in which they lived.
On the other side, on the wall of the house where he lived, you see the portrait of the young high school student — artist and interwar Lithuanian army officer — Ika Grinberg. The feelings and memories of youth that touched a woman’s heart dictated the composition of the artwork, so I would like to paint them facing each other—in at least a small-format fresco—to unite their souls together.
Kiemo Galerija 