Eglė Otto

1976 in Lithuania
based in Berlin
and Hamburg, Germany

In her painting, Eglė Otto works with fragments of the human body that detach from their original context and emerge as autonomous forms within the pictorial space. Through displacement, layering, and serial variation, bodily forms take shape between organic presence and painterly construction. The body does not function as the starting point of representation, but as a result of the painting. It is not depicted, but produced through a painterly process in which form and structure develop simultaneously. Recurring motifs such as maternal figures or culturally inscribed image types are not represented, but reconfigured according to their internal logic. Alongside her painting, Otto develops works in which actions and materials from everyday life become part of her artistic practice. These shift the focus from the image to the conditions of its production, making visible how body, authorship, and attribution are intertwined.