Janina Sabaliauskaitė (LT/UK, b. 1991) is a photographer and independent curator living and working between England and Lithuania. Her work is characterised by an intimate, feminist gaze, exploring the body, queer relationships, identity, sexuality, and disability. Sabaliauskaitė’s works have been exhibited at institutions such as The Estonian Art Museum (Kumu), Tallinn; Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (MIMA), Middlesbrough; Radvila Palace Art Museum, Vilnius; Fondation Fiminco, Romainville; ParisPhoto, Paris; the Latvian National Museum of Art, Riga; and the Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland.
For Foto Tallinn 2026, Sabaliauskaitė displays a series of works that were first exhibited at her solo show Trust, held at Drifts in 2023. The artist sees her works as more than mere images: instead, they form a kind of being – “a bodily coexistence of a human and the earth.” As described by Laima Kreivytė, the curator of the Trust exhibition, “the way that Sabaliauskaitė looks at the earth and rocks is not sculptural, but rather mythological, emphasising a changed attitude in the Anthropocene era. Where previously the earth meant resources, in her photographs the Earth is a deity, a planet…”
Artist is presented by Drifts Gallery
