The historic hall of Radvila Palace is transformed into an environment that resembles a clinical surgery or hospital room, where human presence, with the exception of the visitors’ own physicality, is replaced by technology. Suspended between the physical and the virtual, the bodily and the digitised, the space is inhabited by transparent thermoformed ‘bodies’ abstracted into sculptural biomorphic shapes. Influenced by Lithuanian artist Marija Teresė Rožanskaitė’s paintings from the 1970s and 80s, the sculptures merge technology, draperies, organic and synthetic materials into abstracted states. 

In the exhibition untranquil now, attention is focused on artworks, artefacts, performances, figures and events, that authorize complexity, in which bodies and modes of perception become the agents of contradictory states and troubled histories. Nida Sinnokrot’s works Flight – Jalazone (2016), When Her Eyes Lifted (1998/2016), Ya Ghanamati (Billboard No. 02) (2014) and Exquisite Rotation (Fakir Fans) (2015) are included in the exhibition. Sinnokrot’s work is informed by cinema, colonial history, narrative structures, and the politics of technology. Through tactical acts of technical and conceptual détournement, his work aims to subvert various technologies of control that give rise to shifting social, political, and geographic instabilities.⁠  

Delving into both biographical and collective history, in the exhibition A Century, Tarik Kiswanson unearths the complexities of historical events of the last hundred years of war, destruction and regeneration and how these resonate across generations and geographies. His  practice spans media ranging from sculpture to drawing and film, and from sound and spatial interventions to poetry. Across various corpus, each work serves as a vessel that carries intricate narratives and transports traces of the past and the present. Composed of a series of recently conceived sculptures, Kiswanson’s exhibition unfolds in separate chambers formed by two high walls that divide the main gallery of Portikus.