On 27 October , 6 pm the Giants. Souvenirs exhibition is opening at Gallery Akademija (Pilies g. 44/2, Vilnius).
In 2013 a small resort town Sierre in the Swiss Alps turned into the place which artists Arūnas Gudaitis, Juozas Laivys, Konstantinas Bogdanas, Laura Stasiulytė, Petra Köhle together with Nicolas Vermot Petit-Outhenin and Sarah Hendrickx visited, where they passed each other or desired to be in. They knew about one another and now they even could have some things or thoughts belonging to the ones they have not met. In different ways and through different experiences this space created circumstances for artists to act and to give effect to the meeting/exhibition as a traveller-giant-souvenir a year later in Vilnius.
A book by the poet and literary critic Susan Stewart On Longing (1984) – a gift of memory, received later on – got the stones moving, collected the souvenirs of runaway events, and assembled artists to revise stories which were relegated to private memories.
Waddling stones, a book without a place, walking miniatures, promenades and butterflies, pendant phone cabins, flying and passing artists, moving flickers, talking postcards, slinking cameras, physical and mental migration, a place between emerald sturgeons and Starbucks Americano. There where they should have been yesterday they are here today. He has never been there.
Participating artists:
Arūnas Gudaitis (Vilnius, Lithuania)
Juozas Laivys (Narvaišiai, Plungė Region, Lithuania)
Konstantinas Bogdanas (Vilnius, Lithuania)
Laura Stasiulytė (Vilnius, Lithuania)
Petra Koehle and Nicolas Vermot Petit-Outhenin (Zürich, Switzerland)
Sarah Hendrickx (Antwerp, Belgium)
