Profile: Arnoldas Šliuževičius – Only Natural Design Competitions

Arnoldas Šliuževičius

Vilnius Academy of Arts

My practice is rigorously material-driven. I investigate materials by probing their stories and the contexts that shape them, then observe how these factors influence our day-to-day lives. Through repeated, hands-on trials, I enter into a kind of dialogue with each piece: that exchange produces layered processes and artefacts whose meaning emerges from both making and narrative. Drawing on a broad understanding of materials, I embed every design choice in a wider cultural and ecological context. Thinking globally while acting locally, I strive to keep each element firmly linked to its origins, its users, and the surrounding community.

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Collection Révérences

Category: Furniture

Competitions: Home Competition 2025

Révérences is a collection that stems from a rational yet intimate and non-linear exploration of found waste materials, transforming them through modern design language into new functional roles. The project reimagines discarded matter into emotionally charged furniture pieces. At its heart are found ceramic water drainage tubes, which - together with recycled glass and cast bronze - form a silent homage (Fr.: révérence), framing the layered stories of the individuals who shaped these materials in the first place, honoring their lives and work. Gradually introduced to one another, these materials guided an alternative approach to production, where accidents, process sensitivity, and material relationships played a crucial role. Through a contextual and reflective process, each object becomes a site of inquiry into abundance, value, and the quiet dignity of what we choose to overlook. Révérences resists the illusion of salvation-through-consumption, offering instead a modest ritual of reverence - for material, place, and presence.