Press release
On Friday, May 8 at 7 PM, the solo exhibition “The Prophet” by Ukrainian artist Anton Pedos will open at T.2 Gallery, Vilnius.
Anton Pedos (b. 1998, Zhmerynka, Ukraine) is a painter based in Vilnius, Lithuania. He holds a BA in Applied Ceramics from Lviv National Academy of Arts and an MA in Painting from Vilnius Art Academy. He is a laureate of the Young Painter Prize and a prize winner of the Zabolis Art Prize.
The Prophet presents the artist as a quiet witness of repetition – one who perceives patterns in history, yet remains unable to alter their course. Here, the prophet is not a bearer of divine truth, but a conscious observer who recognizes history as a spiral, where events return in altered forms and humanity continues to repeat its own mistakes.
Anton Pedos’ paintings unfold as fragments rather than complete images. Faces dissolve, bodies appear only partially, and gestures remain suspended. These are not portraits of individuals, but archetypes – carriers of recurring human conditions. Their instability reveals a deeper tension: the persistent inability to recognize and break cyclical patterns.
Working with muted, earthy tones, Pedos creates layered, time-worn surfaces, as if the paintings have been uncovered rather than painted. The works exist between appearance and disappearance, memory and anticipation, reflecting history as an ongoing, unresolved process.
While philosophical in tone, the exhibition is also shaped by the artist’s personal experience. Coming from Ukraine, Pedos engages with the tension between postcolonial realities and enduring imperial frameworks. These themes are not stated directly, but emerge through a sense of unease, fragmentation, and instability.
The Prophet ultimately reflects on awareness as a burden – the ability to perceive recurring patterns without the power to interrupt them. In this exhibition, prophecy is not a revelation, but a state of consciousness suspended within the continuous spiral of history.
Artist: Anton Pedos
Curator: Karolis Rudenka
Opening: May 8, 7:00 pm
Exhibition dates: May 8 – June 3, 2026
Admission: Free, by prior arrangement
Venue: Gallery T.2, Titnago St. 7, Vilnius
Event Partners: Vilnius City Municipality