The woman painter Kazė Zimblytė was one of the first artists in Lithuania to create abstract art. Together with Antanas Cukermanas, who is also featured in this hall, she broke the final links with the figurative, narrative-based painting tradition. Therefore, when looking at Zimblyte's pictures, we shouldn't search for an expression of a specific idea or a symbolic meaning, but rather concentrate on our inner life and a meditation on the shift between the tangible and the intangible, and between here and the beyond.

Can a static image convey an impression of movement? Can it convey an impression of an image drifting across a painted surface? The painter was interested in these ideas, and she looked for answers by using simple means of visual expression, just space and abstract form.

The composition of this picture was constructed to create an impression of a suspended object, or an object caught in movement. The artist achieved this by a subtle unbalancing of the composition, by placing the figure off-centre. The monochrome background represents an unlimited and bottomless space, with a material form in the centre: a bulging irregular square glued to the surface of the painting. Its structure and scale, in relation to the whole of the composition, takes the viewer's gaze beyond the sensual and towards metaphysical reflection.