A guided tour with Artist Andr\u0117ja \u0160altyt\u0117 will take place at Atletika Gallery on Saturday, 18 December, at 4 pm during which she will introduce the process of creating her most recent exhibition \u201cKyiv Tongue\u201d currently running at the gallery. On the same day, 18 December, from 1 to 8 pm a festive event \u201cRasos Jumble Bazaar\u201d will take place at cultural centre SODAS 2123, where the gallery is located. We are happy to have this opportunity to invite everyone to SODAS 2123 at this time of year!<\/p>\n
Andr\u0117ja \u0160altyt\u0117\u2019s project Kyiv Tongue<\/em>is an ongoing research (2018-2021), in which she seeks to uncover language and its social role through film. It is an installation, constructed from individual film scenes, arranged in the gallery space, including a series of drawings and a vocabulary created by the artist.<\/p>\n After the Maidan Square protests in 2014 language has become a particularly sensitive topic in Ukraine. While the controversy over the so called language law was unfolding in the parliament of Ukraine in 2019, the artist was intensively trying to contact and approach Ukrainian citizens within their social environments. \u0160altyt\u0117 focused on everyday situations in which people operate and exchange language, when language emerges as an intimate rite of passage and does not succumb to external political processes.<\/p>\n In her cinema-related practice, \u0160altyt\u0117 creates situations in which characters behave performatively. The artist believes that preconceptions can be challenged and the established boundaries of social spaces can be extended only by presenting language from a different angle. She uses cinema as a tool to visualise the conflict between intimate and public language. The desire for free expression and the acquired self-censorship are trying to come to an agreement, while religion and secular culture clash and contradict each other.<\/p>\n Andr\u0117ja \u0160altyt\u0117 (b. 1988, Vilnius) lives and works in Leipzig. Studied painting at the Vilnius Academy of Arts and at the Leipzig Academy of Visual Arts, where she specialised in video and film. She had a solo exhibition at the MdbK Museum of Visual Arts in Leipzig (2019), and presented work at the Cinema Camp “Imperfect cinema” (2018). In 2021 she was awarded the German Federal Prize for Art Students and participated in an exhibition at the Federal Art Gallery in Bonn.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Director: Andr\u0117ja \u0160altyt\u0117<\/p>\n Co-director: Leo Tax<\/p>\n Camera: Andr\u0117ja \u0160altyt\u0117, Leo Tax, Yarema Malashuk<\/p>\n Main sound operator: Vitalij Garkavij<\/p>\n Music: Alexey Shmurak<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Exhibition open 09\/12\/2021 \u2013 07\/01\/2022\/ Address: Atletika gallery, Vitebsko 21, Vilnius.<\/p>\n Guided tour with the artist 18\/12\/2021 4 pm. Proof of vaccination and registration necessary to take part in the event: https:\/\/forms.gle\/ZbV8zgmBLo6j7P177<\/p>\n Organised by Lithuanian Interdisciplinary Artists\u2019 Association (LIAA).<\/p>\n Activities of LIAA funded by Lithuanian Council for Culture and Vilnius City Municipality.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Production of works funded by Lithuanian Council for Culture, Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen, INITIAL scholarship.<\/p>\n Main information partner: 15min.lt.<\/p>\n
\nWednesdays to Fridays 4 \u2013 7 pm (except 24 and 31 December).<\/p>\n