PERMAFROST by Elena Grudzinskaitė

2015 02 03 — 2015 02 28 at Vilnius Graphic Art Centre
Author Echo Gone Wrong
Published in Events in Lithuania

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On 3-28 February, 2015 Vilnius Graphic Art Centre hosts Elena Grudzinskaitė’s exhibition PERMAFROST at the Hall of Expositions on the 2nd floor.

Permafrost which makes ¼ of the land surface on the Earth with the annual temperature for a long time going down below zero according to the scale of Celsius. This territory covered by the coat of ice and suspense, setting back natural processes of decay and decomposition, and altering the pathways of usual water movement and penetration into the ground. Thus insensibly on the surface unusual laky landscapes, substances of erupted land layers as well as plains and sierra of unfamiliar forms are eventually formed. The definition of PERMAFROST in the exhibition invokes as a counterfort for nomination and creation of a patchwork absorbing time, a patchwork in which a person loses the feeling of social positioning, where there are no signs and landmarks, where any immediate perception of space is erased. An individual fallen in such situation is bound to look for new strategies of know-how and existence, and in a strange place one appears under the necessity to encounter with oneself. The installation holds artificial and simulated landscapes, moments frozen in movement, formations of monotonous groups and fragments – without time or reminiscence, without change and sociability, without emotional pulse… thawed in eternity.

Elena Grudzinskaitė