Roots arm a fighting body

The project developed from the research into the Šilainiai Gardens that cover the 8th Fort in Kaunas. The installation and film origins in the partially flooded military fort, using the rhizomatic growth of community garden roots as both metaphor and method to challenge the notion of strength and resilience. Root-like sculptures pierce through the ceilings and emerge from illuminated water, transforming the bunker’s dark architecture into a surreal, inverted landscape. A creature’s movement and sound fill and inhabits these tunnels, amplifying the eerie tensions of the site.
The work explores hidden systems of connectivity and the strength between soil and bodies, contrasts practices of care and collaboration with the legacy of military defence and destruction.

Sprectral Drift - Audra Festival
Exhibition at the Kaunas Picture Gallery
Curators: Tautvydas Urbelis ir Hyperlink Athens

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With support of Pro Helvetia