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Grey Gold, Black Lakes, White Latex
Three prints of digital drawings, 2022

If Disrupted, It Becomes Tangible, National Gallery of Art, Vilnius, Lithuania,
31/03/2023 – 18/06/2023


New media theorist Jussi Parikka suggests to think of technologies as extensions of Earth. Everyone who uses technology also uses minerals — they provide communication, cloud accounts, movement, and progress towards more nature-friendly industries (and they are the reason why this artwork exists). The extraction of rare-earth minerals for manufacturing the technologies is an infrastructure which transforms the Earth, shapes the economy, changes lifestyles, and exploits resources.

Exhibited in the group exhibition If Disrupted, It Becomes Tangible at the National Gallery of Art in Vilnius, Lithuania. 

Artists: Tekla Aslanishvili & Giorgi Gago Gagoshidze, Mariyam Medet, Yevgenia Belorusets, eeefff, Anna Engelhardt, fantastic little splash, Uladzimir Hramovich, The Museum of Stones editorial collective, Oleksiy Radynski, Alicja Rogalska, Sabīne Šnē, Nomeda & Gediminas Urbonas, XYANA.

Curators: Aleksei Borisionok, Antonina Stebur. 

Work was commisioned for the RIXC Art Science Festival exhibition Splintered Realities at KIM? Contemporary Art Centre, Riga, Latvia, curated by Rasa Šmite and Raitis Šmits.



Photos: Gintarė Grigėnaitė

Image courtesy Sabīne Šnē and National Gallery of Art

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