After graduating in painting in 1993, Eglė Rakauskaitė plunged into contemporary art life, while her new works, conceptual objects, performances, installations, video films and photography, attracted the interest of exhibition curators and critics both in Lithuania and abroad. In 1999, she represented Lithuania in its first ever national pavilion at the international Venice Biennale.

In her analyses of the norms and stereotypes of public and cultural life, she has enriched the discourse with the female outlook. Her work depends greatly on the impact of the material, which is a source of unusual and disturbing sensations, and not only aesthetic, but also sensual ones.

This video shows a female body submerged in liquid fat. It was shot with three video cameras, taking in separately the head, the torso and the legs. The whole picture is put together from three synchronised images on the screen. The image soon evokes the familiar image of the reclining female figure that was established in art during the Renaissance period, when a harmonious and beautiful naked body was perceived as the embodiment of vitality. This idyllic scene is disturbed slightly by the documentary naturalism: the slow movement of a hand or a leg, the raised head. The fat surrounding the human body offends the viewer's sensibilities. The fascination is accompanied by a sharp and disguised sense of the carnal, which is far from always pleasant, and in everyday life it is mostly repulsive. This impression is further strengthened by the changing colour spectrum of the film: the warm, liquid, yellow fat turns into a thick, whitish substance enveloping the woman. This provokes some doubt about the innocence of the image of the naked female body.