On November 7, exhibition by Isora x Lozuraityte Studio for Architecture (IXL) opens at apiece, a gallery strategically focused on autonomous artistic expression.

IXL’s assembly of elastic material studies into semi-recycled plastics and their fixations into pre- or post-functional liminal forms are set at the showcase gallery as a nature morte—a superimposition of multiple artifacts of design thinking from 2020 to 2025. This is a multiple setup, one scenery of drafts made specifically for the apiece.

It can also be seen as a window into a landscape of a material situation—a horizon of prototypes from past and ongoing design processes, a material cross-section into a processual design practice. The installation explores an array of IXL studio’s works through a lens of the idea of fractal materiality: one instance of a creative process embedded within another.

The exhibition features fragments of monolithic leaks, casts, cuts, splinters, scraps, and shreds—artifacts from different episodes of interconnected but separate design attempts. Fixations of material observations, gathered across various periods of working with pre-recycled plastic, coalesce into a single composite of fluid forms—an archive of forms in transition. A set of antipodes of universalised cyclical waste purification and the exploration of elasticity and endurance of fossilized unrefined flux. These are not fully recycled materials—interruptions in the recycling loop, frozen mid-transformation. Suspended as static monoliths, they offer a critical lens into the geologies of plastic.

These liminal pieces are, at once, material extracts of larger processes and prototypes of elastic adaptation for a potential function. Suspended in the vicious cycle of recycling, the form offers a critical perspective on the human-influenced ecological crisis, where plastic becomes a footprint and a fossil of the Anthropocene.

Since 2020, artists and architects have been incorporating reuse and recycling processes into various architectural projects, working with both physical materials and their historical charges. According to the artists, material flow is one of the pillars of their studio practice a conversation with material in a broader context, emerging as a response to global material urgencies.

Isora x Lozuraityte Studio for Architecture (IXL) was founded by artists and architects Petras Išora and Ona Lozuraitytė in 2014 in Vilnius, where it is based. Creative duo exercise a cooperative practice, linking the spheres of architecture, public space and infrastructure, design, art, landscape and environments of display.

Exhibition curators: Milena Černiakaitė, Aušra Trakšelytė

Assisting architect Gabrielius Dovydėnas

Graphic designer Marek Voida

Translator Martynas Galkus

Special thanks: Dovydas Alčauskas, Darius Jankauskas, Helga Packevičiūtė

Exhibition funded by the Lithuanian Council for Culture, Vilnius City Municipality

Sponsors: Gaudrė, Piritas

Exhibition open until 12 December 2025