{"id":10625,"date":"2025-04-02T15:31:14","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T13:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.letmekoo.lt\/?p=10625"},"modified":"2025-04-02T15:31:14","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T13:31:14","slug":"nemylimi-felicijos-honkasalo-ir-sam-williams-paroda-atletikoje","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.letmekoo.lt\/en\/naujienos\/nemylimi-felicijos-honkasalo-ir-sam-williams-paroda-atletikoje\/","title":{"rendered":"’The Unloved’ by Felicia Honkasalo and Sam Williams at Atletika Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"

On 3 April 2025 at 7pm, an exhibition titled \u2018The Unloved\u2019 opens at Atletika gallery, presenting the debut collaborative body of work by artists Felicia Honkasalo (FI) and Sam Williams (UK). The exhibition continues until 17 May and will end with a screening night on 16 May, a film \/ programme selected by the artists.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

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In \u2018The Unloved\u2019, the figure of the \u2018weed\u2019 is animated through a combination of film, photography, collage, text and ephemera that sits somewhere in the cracks between museum herbarium, Gothic fantasy, childhood fable and amateur theatre.
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\n<\/span>According to Richard Mabey, Britain\u2019s foremost nature writer, weeds \u2013 even many intrusive aliens \u2013 give something back. They green over the dereliction we have created. They move in to replace more sensitive plants that we have endangered. Their willingness to grow in the most hostile environments \u2013 a bombed city, a crack in a wall \u2013 means that they insinuate the idea of wild nature into places otherwise quite shorn of it. They are, in this sense, paradoxical. Although they follow and are dependent on human activities, their cussedness and refusal to play by our rules makes them subversive, and the very essence of wildness.<\/span>
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\n<\/span>Living in times characterised as the end of the world, The Unloved is an exploration of identity, transformation, and the resilience of the overlooked, inviting audiences to see beauty in the tenacity of what is often dismissed or despised.<\/span>
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\n<\/span>Felicia Honkasalo lives and works in Helsinki, Finland and has a Masters from the Department of Time-based Arts, University of the Arts, Helsinki, and a BA in Photography from University of the Arts, London UK. Her work has been shown in Finland and abroad in solo exhibitions, group exhibitions and at international film screenings. Her first monograph, Grey Cobalt, was published by Loose Joints in 2019 (UK). Her work explores the relationship between memory and history and the borderlines between life and death, human and animal. Through a critical and poetic approach she seeks to challenge established ways of thinking and encourage new ways of seeing the world around us. She often collaborates with other artists and scholars. Recent exhibitions include: Sinne Gallery, Helsinki, Finland (2024), Sema Nanji Museum of Contemporary Art, South-Korea (2023), Turku Art Museum, Finland (2022); Helsinki Biennial, Finland (2021), Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art, Latvia (2020).<\/span>
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\n<\/span>Sam Williams is an artist with a practice that intertwines moving-image, collage, choreography, sound and writing. His ongoing research focuses on multispecies entanglements, ecological systems, bodies-as-worlds and folk mythologies and how they propose possibilities for present and future ways of non-human-centric living. Sam is based in London where he is a resident artist at Somerset House Studios. He has presented work at institutions including Chisenhale Gallery, Arnolfini, Baltic39, Siobhan Davies Dance, Somerset House, Tate Britain, Studio Voltaire and South Kiosk (UK), She Will (Norway), Kino Arsenal, Akademie der Kunst, Tanzhalle Weisenberg and B3 Biennale (Germany). He has been artist in residence at Rupert, Lithuania (2022), PRAKSIS, Oslo (2018) and in 2021 was selected as one of ten artists forming the Wysing Arts Centre Syllabus, a peer-led alternative education program.<\/p>\n

<\/span>Exhibition text \u2013 Juliet Jacques
\n<\/span>Graphic Design \u2013 Monika Janulevi\u010di\u016bt\u0117
\n<\/span>Translation \u2013\u00a0Rosana Lukauskait\u0117
\n<\/span>Technical manager \u2013 Neda Rimait\u0117<\/p>\n

<\/span>With thanks to<\/span> Roma Au\u0161kalnyt\u0117, R\u016bta Radu\u0161yt\u0117, Jakub Dubaniewicz, Helen Hamilton, Somerset House Studios, The Rio Cinema, TIN Caf\u00e9 and John Hunnex at the Natural History Museum, London.<\/span>
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\nExhibition opening \u2013 Thursday 3 April 7\u20139 pm (part of \u2018OPEN SODAS. Weeds\u2019 event programme at cultural centre SODAS 2123).
\n<\/span>Exhibition dates & times \u2013 4 April\u201317 May 2025, Thu-Fri 4\u20137pm, Sat 1\u20135 pm.
\n<\/span>Address \u2013 Atletika gallery, Vitebsko 21, Vilnius. <\/span>
\n<\/span>Free entry to the exhibition and events.<\/span>
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\n<\/span>The exhibition is organised by the Lithuanian Interdisciplinary Artists\u2019 Association (LIAA). Activities of LIAA are financed by the Lithuanian Council for Culture and Vilnius City Municipality. The exhibition is supported by Nordic Culture Point and TAIKE<\/p>\n

<\/span>www.atletikaprojects.lt<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n


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