Arturas Raila

(1962, Vilnius)
For almost a decade, Arturas Raila has taught at a Vilnius secondary school of art. This institution is also the showplace of his video: entitled "The Girl is Innocent" (1999), the video depicts a stroll through the graduating classes of the year 1998. The video?s theme is the discrepancy between post-communist experiences and the resultant modes of work of several students on the one hand, and the traditional notion of artistic genius which continues to provide an orientation for some of Raila?s professor colleagues on the other hand.