Meet our artist. It’s such a privilege for the TweetFest team to work with an artist to create the posters for the festival. And for the last three years, we have worked with the incredible Egle-Evergreen Radziute. We asked Egle to sit down and tell us more about the process, her creations, and what she does as an artist.
My name is Egle-Evergreen Radziute. I am a surrealist artist and I’ve had the joy of creating the official Tweetfest Film Festival posters for the last three years. Each edition has been a chance to challenge myself as an artist and create something timeless for a great cause.
This year’s piece, called ‘The Risk of Freedom’, explores the delicate tension between fear and liberation, the fragile yet electric moment when we choose to step into the unknown, trusting that something greater will catch us.
In the artwork, a woman runs from a huge creature, leaving behind the dark but familiar room for something light and bright and exciting. Instead of a face, she is looking at the world through the gaze of spring and a fresh-bloomed flower, symbolizing renewal and the life she holds within. The glass dome around it is fragile yet luminous, a metaphor for how vulnerability itself can become strength.
A key detail in the piece is the roll of film coming through a keyhole-shaped hole with eyes in each square interacting with the world around her. It acts as a reminder that we are all witnesses to our own becoming, constantly viewing life through the lens of memory, imagination, and choice, but sometimes such reflection is hidden deep inside us. I also wanted to capture that feeling of cinematic nostalgia with ultra-modern, pop-surrealist energy in the sense that we are both the actor and the audience of our own story.
In making the piece, I came to a few challenges. How do you show ‘resilience’ and ‘risk’ — something so internal — in a way that resonates universally? I went down a rabbit hole of exploration to find inspiration. I found myself drawn to the work of Cindy Sherman, whose self-portraits challenge the way women are seen in media and art. She reminded me that taking risks often begins with daring to define yourself on your own terms, which often means leaving the outside world’s rules in the dump.
Stylistically, I was influenced by Grayson Perry’s narrative vibrancy and fearless social commentary, Edvard Munch’s emotional linework and flow, and the surreal playfulness of Jeff Koons. These artists all deal with transformation, identity, and the blurring of inner and outer realities; themes that resonate deeply with my own artistic path. In the end, we end up with something that is unique and thought-provoking.
‘Bold’ has really been the word of the season. This piece marks one of my more ambitious projects, and it came to me at a time of very intense personal growth. I am incredibly grateful to Tweetfest for their continued trust in my creative vision and for giving me the space to tell a visual story that welcomes and intrigues festival guests!
If you’d like to see more of Egle’s work and to follow her journey, you can find Egle at @unquiet.reverie.art on Instagram. And you’ll see Egle’s amazing work around the festival!
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