Love Soupreme

The mural is an ode to love, and ode to pink soup, and to our love of pink soup.

How does a dish achieve iconic status? It must live not only within personal memory but also acquire symbolic weight in national identity, embedding itself in the collective subconscious — both in everyday life and in the realm of myth. For Lithuanians, pink soup ticks all these boxes.

As in much of my work, I employ characters and anthropomorphic protagonists to convey an emotional narrative, while maintaining a highly associative visual language through colour and composition. If you look at the artwork and feel the joy, playfulness and cheekiness that pink soup is (bright pink colour, sour milk dish?? who even dares to dream it up?!), my job there is done.

Pink soup can be deconstructed into its ingredients or sealed inside a tin can like Andy Warhol’s Campbell’s Soup — we love it all the same with fiery passion.