
ARTIST STATEMENT
I walk to listen.
To follow what is unseen.
Creation for me begins from within –
not from an idea, but from an impulse, a vibration,
from an internal shift.
My work is not about forms,
but about becoming form.
Form as a process.
As movement.
As disruption.
Like breathing. Like sound.
Not muses, but microbes.
Not inspiration, but symbiotic tension.
Our bodies are plural.
We are not alone within ourselves.
Others live within us – invisible, yet active.
I explore wandering – as an act of creation, as a way of being.
Movement through space, time, the edges of consciousness.
The central figure in my practice is the wandering nerve (vagus nerve) –
like an animal thread, connecting feeling, decision, and trajectory.
It is the internal director, the silent guide, the neurochemical storyteller.
The body becomes a landscape, where beings are born.
Not objects – but processes.
Not sculptures – but focal points of sensation.
Some are heard, some are worn, some are simply felt as an inner touch.
Through design, I invite these ephemeral beings to appear.
To see, feel, and even measure what is usually unseen.
They speak not in words, but in impulses.
In breath.
In unexpected silence.
I walk to listen.
To follow what is unseen.


Realybrasciai (reality writings) are drafts that turn into dailywritings, processes and movements through which artist Gerda Liudvinaviciute seeks to reflect on modernity and the place of design within it.
Sculptures: Vagus nerve rhythms






In my research on the Vagus nerve, I discovered how various movements dedicated to stimulating it can influence our mood and state of mind. I began creating movement rituals to activate the vagus nerve and engage my emotions. The rhythm and forms of these repeated rituals emerges in the space and gives rise to non-human creatures that wander through spaciousness.

Wandering light sculpture

Describe your image

Describe your image

Describe your image

Describe your image
In 2023, I led workshops for contemporary dance artists at the Sumida expo festival in Tokyo, Japan. Based on Huizinga's theory of the circle, I defined space as a portal in which a human being moves until it finally becomes an unrecognisable being - through space and body. First, in the dark space, the boundaries of the circle are marked by dripping wax, awakening the primordial, mystical beast within the body. Later, blindfolded, the body begins to follow the vagus nerve. Ritually people wander in a circle, occasionally grounding the body's movements in Japanese handmade paper and wandering on the impulses of the moment, the workshop participants created ephemeral beings in space.

Some of them shared the circle with strangers in pairs, others acted alone in the circle, following the impulses of the vagus nerve and each other. Becoming one body, separating for a moment and finding synergy again. The sound in the space accompanied us, from barely audible violin solos, to symphonic music moving into the electronic. The low frequencies were meant to stir up the inner accumulations, calm the body and release the vagus to wander, as sound is one of the most powerful tools to stimulate the nerve.
Linocuts of Vagus nerve rhythm
Vagus nerve synapses

VAGUS_XPLORE 2024
Series: WANDERING BEING
The WANDERING BEING series delves into our existence and the act of wandering in space, proposing that nerves can create new forms of life.
VAGUS_XPLORE invites us to reimagine humanity through our stranger bodies. What would humanity and design look like if we were designing for the stranger beings within and around us?




Poisonous lead jewellery




Depth of the earth. Along the paths of the Northern dreams
Collection: Wandering being
Paper, cooper, silver, Icelandic lava, diary
90 x 130 cm, 2025
The Wandering Being series delves into our existence and the act of wandering in space, proposing that nerves can create new forms of life. Depth of the earth. Along the paths of the Northern dreams invites us to reimagine humanity through our stranger dreams and environment.
“I must step carefully to avoid melting into the sulfur. Wandering through lava fields, where the surface in some places is only about 5 cm thick feels like traversing the Valley of Death - every step could be the last.”
It's poisonous jewelry made of lead, encrusted with erupting volcano lava, and photographs from the Lava Fields, where the surface in some places is only 5 cm thick. This is a story about wandering through Iceland, towards a volcano, when one—within—builds up and is about to erupt. The exhibition is accompanied by excerpts from my diary, searching for the boundary where humanity begins and ends, who we are when the line between dreams and wakefulness disappears, and everything becomes an endless delirium.











