Drifts (LT) Set in Vilnius’ historic old town – near Cathedral Square – Drifts was founded by Jolanta Laurent in December 2022. With its name, Drifts is a reference to a 2020 novel by Kate Zambreno, as well as to the guiding questions that shaped the gallery’s establishment – the search for its form and an aesthetics of change. Drifts primarily represents emerging artists, whilst its programme focuses on questions of contemporaneity, reflecting on humanity and the process of creativity today. Drifts’ exhibition programme involves close collaboration with curators, cooperation with other galleries and institutions, and participation in art fairs to ensure a global outlook. The gallery programme is highly dedicated to artists’ creativity and tailored to foster collecting practice.
For Foto Tallinn 2026, Drifts presents a selection of works by Lithuanian photographer Janina Sabaliauskaitė. The photographs were previously exhibited in her 2023 solo show, Trust, curated by Laima Kreivytė. In Sabaliauskaitė’s photographs, glances that meet on both sides of the camera establish mutual trust, support, and proximity; her work spans intimate portraits of queer people to landscapes of bodies. As Laima Kreivytė described, “the way Sabaliauskaitė looks at the earth and rocks is not sculptural, but rather mythological, emphasising the changed attitude of the Anthropocene era: whereas previously the earth meant resources, in her photographs the Earth is a deity, a planet, soil and an element. These pictures are like an encounter of the archaeo-mythology of Marija Gimbutas, the Gaia Hypothesis of James Lovelock and Lynn Margulis, and the ideas of the pioneers of ecosexuality, Beth Stephens and Annie Sprinkle, who changed land art into the love of the Earth.”
