Baltic Lines group show ‘I hope this email finds you well,’ which will open on October 12th, 17:00, at InTheCloset (hangar space) in Vilnius. The works presented at the exhibition were developed through the Baltic Lines year-long journey, referencing happenings around the Rail Baltica railway construction in process while activating the discourse around the megaproject as a semiotic device.
The exhibition title – I hope this email finds you well – refers to metaphoric corridors the Baltic Lines artistic research group has been walking this year. While following the Rail Baltica project, and reading about its potential to create new arteries, meeting points, and axis, the Baltic Lines participants found themselves already operating within the Baltic-Nordic economic corridor that the railway project is materialising. While observing the dramaturgy of the implementing bodies of Rail Baltica, the group has arrived at a point of departure where all of us – a small artistic research project, offices of train-for-the-future, a hangar-in-waiting, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, and beyond – meet in a shared balancing act of trying to do something together. To connect and be friends. And can we even afford not to be friends? Or at least perform a friendship?
The exhibition takes place on and through the Soviet-gauge train tracks, inviting you, the visitor, to climb on the wheeled platform that begins already at the entrance space and provides a horizontal overview of the works while allowing you to stop the vehicle where necessary. We are all just visiting. The space opens an accidental friendship between an exhibition space and a train line, leaving from the New World and arriving at the fictionalised tale of the once-to-come-maybe-one-day-tunnel connecting Helsinki and Tallinn. Do you see light at the end of it? Is it the train approaching?
The public programme includes an opening performance on October 12th at 17:00, followed by an exhibition tour at 18:00, both taking place at InTheCloset (hangar space). On October 13th at 11:00, join the ‘I hope this email finds you well’ table talks at the CAC Reading Room. The programme continues with toursdetours – a creative travel agency seeking to form groups of travel-bodies – events on October 26th and concludes with a final exhibition tour on October 27th at 15:00, also at InTheCloset (hangar space).
Participating artists: Sofie Lucia Maria Carlson, Aistė Gaidilionytė, Danute Līva, Diāna Mikāne, Katariin Mudist, Gustavs Grasis, Valtteri Alanen, Eglė Šimėnaitė, Kamilė Vasiliauskaitė, Mattias Malk, and Paula Veidenbauma, toursdetours (Bárbara Acevedo Strange, Moritz Appich, Paula Buškevica)
Curated by gel office (Paula Veidenbauma and Diāna Mikāne)
The exhibition will be open from October 13th to 27th at InTheCloset (hangar space), Pelesos g. 10, Vilnius. Opening hours: Sat/Sun from 13:00 to 17:00.
