DESERTIFICATION

Talking from an ecological point of view, when the topsoil is disturbed, erosion increases, and as a result the land deteriorates. This is the process of desertification. However, in this project, desertification is seen as receding space-time: time and space, folding on to each other, while levelling various parameters, which we use to measure the social, political and cultural climate that tends to exist in society. But it is so dry and dehydrated that promises of a better future are like a shimmering mirage in the desert. Tolerance and hypocrisy merge, and rise up like a sandstorm that obscures the horizon … Grey and yellow. Low-frequency sound vibrations, and the echoes of whistling tunes, spread in an abstract two-tone desert.

The exhibition presents the most recent artwork by Kristina Inčiūraitė: the audio-visual installation “Desertification”, the series of drawings “Massachusetts, Washington”, and the earlier experimental film “The Fragment as a Proverb” (2014), which became the starting point for the exhibition.

Kristina Inčiūraitė, lives and works in Vilnius. Her works have been presented at art institutions such as the National Art Museum of Ukraine in Kiev, the Oi Futuro Cultural Center in Rio de Janeiro, the Kalmar konstmuseum in Sweden, the Laznia Centre for Contemporary Art in Gdansk, the ar/ge kunst Galerie Museum in Bolzano, the Kumu Art Museum in Tallinn, the Muzeum Sztuki in Lodz, the Mucsarnok in Budapest, the NGBK in Berlin, the Casino Luxembourg - Forum d’art contemporain in Luxembourg, the Pori Art Museum in Finland, the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Turin, the Contemporary Art Centre in Vilnius, and elsewhere.

She also participates in international film and video festivals. Her films have been shown at international festivals of video and cinema film: the 28th Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival, the 53rd Nordic Film Days in Lübeck, the 40th Montreal Festival du Nouveau Cinema, the 10th East End Film Festival in London, the Marseille International Festival of Documentary Film, and others. She has attended artists’ residencies in Austria, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Romania, Sweden and China.

For more information: www.inciuraite.lt

Image: Kristina Inčiūraitė, a fragment of the audio-visual installation “Desertification” (2016)