Until 9 September, exhibition ‘Artists’ Film International 2024’ is on display at the Sapieha Palace (L. Sapiegos str. 13, Vilnius, Lithuania).
Solidarity is not the same as support. To experience solidarity, we must have a community of interests, shared beliefs and goals around which to unite, to build Sisterhood. Support can be occasional. It can be given and just as easily withdrawn. Solidarity requires sustained, ongoing commitment. – bell hooks
Artists’s Film International was established in 2008 by Whitechapel Gallery in London and since its inception has seen 32 international venues collaborate. It is an alternative, lateral programme that exemplifies non-hierarchical, borderless and collaborative curatorial models. Responding to urgent global topics, the programme cultivates collective practice and cross-cultural dialogue, fosters the exchange of ideas and perspectives, and provides wide reaching visibility for artists.
AFI’24 is co-curated and presented by fifteen arts organisations, and, for the first time, is convened by Forma. This year the AFI partners have commissioned or selected recent artists’ films which respond to the theme of Solidarity. Considering solidarity as a collective form of resistance, togetherness and interdependence, the fifteen films in AFI’24 address the ways in which solidarity is needed, sought and enacted on micro and macro scales. As a body of films, the AFI’24 programme provokes and cultivates radical imaginaries that have the potential to transform our wider, collective experience.
The programme was launched at Crawford Art Gallery in Cork, Ireland on July 4th, and will continue to be presented around the world at the following AFI’24 partner venues: argos centre for audiovisual arts, Brussels, Belgium; Ballroom Marfa, Texas, USA; Center for Contemporary Arts Afghanistan in exile e.V., (CCAA in exile), Frankfurt, Germany; Cultural Center of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia; Forma, London, UK; Fundación Proa, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo (GAMeC), Bergamo, Italy; Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), Los Angeles, USA; MMAG Foundation, Amman, Jordan; Project 88, Mumbai, India; Tramway, Glasgow, Scotland; Tromsø Kunstforening,Tromsø, Norway; Video-Forum of Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k), Berlin, Germany.
Sapieha Palace has selected Deividas Vytautas Aukščiūnas’ video work filled up, torn open (2022–2024) to represent it at AFI’24.
The programme will be shown at the Sapieha Palace from 7 August to 9 September in the North Gallery on the first floor. Screenings will take place during the Palace’s opening hours, with three films from the programme presented each week.
Visiting is free of charge.
TEAM
Curator: Povilas Gumbis
Graphic design: Vytautas Volbekas, Valiantsin Duduk
Communication: Denisas Kolomyckis, Aistė Račaitytė, Emilija Filipenkovaitė, Giedrė Ivanova
Technical implementation: Jokūbas Čižikas, Vsevolod Kovalevskij, Antanas Dombrovskij
Translation: Veronika Vasiljeva-Niparavičienė
Copy editing: Dangė Vitkienė
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Rupert – centre for art, residencies and education
Photography: Emilija Filipenkovaitė
‘Artists’ Film International 2024’, exhibition view. Sapieha Palace, Vilnius. Photographer: Emilija Filipenkovaitė
‘Artists’ Film International 2024’, exhibition view. Sapieha Palace, Vilnius. Photographer: Emilija Filipenkovaitė
‘Artists’ Film International 2024’, exhibition view. Sapieha Palace, Vilnius. Photographer: Emilija Filipenkovaitė
COLLECTIF FAIRE-PART. THE STOPOVER (L‘ESCALE, 2022). Video, sound, duration – 14’00”. Photographer: Emilija Filipenkovaitė
Caterina Erica Shanta. ‘In Absence’ (‘En Ausencia’, 2023). Video, sound, duration – 26’37”. Photographer: Emilija Filipenkovaitė
Rana Nazzal Hamadeh. ‘we would be freer’ (2023). Video, sound, duration – 8’00”. Photographer: Emilija Filipenkovaitė
Deividas Vytautas Aukščiūnas. ‘filled up, torn open’ (2022/2024). Video, sound, duration – 8’51” (foreground); Nadeem Din-Gabisi. MASS (2020). Video, sound, duration – 13’27” (background). Photographer: Emilija Filipenkovaitė
‘Artists’ Film International 2024’, exhibition view. Sapieha Palace, Vilnius. Photographer: Emilija Filipenkovaitė
‘Artists’ Film International 2024’, exhibition view. Sapieha Palace, Vilnius. Photographer: Emilija Filipenkovaitė
COLLECTIF FAIRE-PART. THE STOPOVER (L‘ESCALE, 2022). Video, sound, duration – 14’00”. Photographer: Emilija Filipenkovaitė
‘Artists’ Film International 2024’, exhibition view. Sapieha Palace, Vilnius. Photographer: Emilija Filipenkovaitė
