Things are things when in a storage. They merely collect dust there, stored with only practical concerns in mind; no digression into aesthetics shall ever be permitted here. These things are velocities that inhabit a volume, that is, the space; things behave like bodies.
The storage gates have been closed and so the things are closed in, yet ultimately they close themselves. Therefore their shapes, materials and purposes (intentions) are not necessarily obvious or foreseeable. A certain shadow, if we were to speak of this density of things as of light, lingers in there. In other words, it is not that you cannot actually see these things because of the darkness; rather, we know that it is dark here, because we can’t see very well.
While following the link that ties the things, one is bound to notice that it doesn’t lead anywhere, that the link is promiscuous. Or, to rewrite the phrase from its other end, the promiscuity is the link here.
Did not intent to count anything, but, firstly, the word promiscuity might refer to:
∙ a loose sensual connection
∙ a physical movement
∙ some kind of unregulated friction
Nevertheless this promiscuity is allowed into the storage only for as long as it stays as practical aspect.
It just so happens that some of the things in the storage have not necessarily been selected. Their presence here is somewhat accidental (inasmuch as it hasn’t been exactly calculated) and so they are evocative of words coalescing into an incoherent sentence uttered with agitation and excitement.
Curator: Neringa Bumblienė
Andrius Svilys (born 1992) is a Lithuanian artist, who currently works in London. In his oeuvre A. Svilys observes a thing as an anthropological object, considering its being as a lively organism, situated in social, political, ethical, economical discourses. Here, any object exists as a distinct and only partially dependent on its author, in the field of interest involving not only things, but structures of thought and language.
Artworks of A. Svilys have been exhibited in From 199C to 199D. Liam Gillick at the MAGASIN CNAC (2014), France (2014), You and that Thing There (2014) and Point of View (2013) in London, at the travelling biennial Jeune Création Européenne 2013-2015 with its venues in Austria, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain and A Pledge. The First Part of a Trick at KCCC, Klaipeda (Lithunia, 2013).
