Emilija Zakarauskaitė
travels, wanders, ... (all around)
curated group exhibition
“means of travel” at the Railway museum, Vilnius
Means of travel is an interdisciplinary art exhibition in the Railway Park hangar next to a busy railway station. It is a place where the artists‘; relationship to travel and modes of transport is situated, with a researcher‘s point of view, empirical experiences, the materiality of travel or the materials of the means of transport as tools.
Exhibition participants: Austėja Skrupskaitė, Anastasija Fokša, Anna Chostegian, Artur Shirin – Ettoja, Emilija Zakarauskaitė, Justina Gražytė, Marija Šnipaitė, Rūta Spelskytė, titas antanas vilkaitis, Tomas Kavarskas, Viktorija Balkutė, Vitalij Červiakov, Vygintas Orlovas
Day photos: Anna Chostegian
Night photos: Viktorija Balkutė
solo exhibition "travels and wanders"
at the VDA gallery "Artifex", Vilnius.
travelling and wandering are ways to get inspired, create and learn about your surroundings and the world. through them, i discover the everyday details, souvenirs, memories of the Vilnius live in and the other cities i visit, catching the wind and the joys. i explore Vilnius on foot, on trolleybuses and buses. i leave the city by train, by car, and i try to reflect all these experiences in the exhibition. the wind has been with me since i was a child – i was born by the sea, so i tame it in other places too.
wandering and wind are connected by the English etymology of these two words.
the word “wander” comes from “wendh”, meaning to turn, to wind. wind has two meanings in English, one for a turn and the other for the movement of air masses. in the exhibition, these two meanings are intertwined. sometimes i travel with the wind, changing directions, exploring the differences between forecasts and actual experience. travelling and wandering is like an implied, invisible, yet felt inspiration for the creative process. i invite you to look at each installation in the three different rooms of the exhibition as separate mediums, segments that tell the story of a different journey.
photos: Viktorija Balkutė
the word “wander” comes from “wendh”, meaning to turn, to wind. wind has two meanings in English, one for a turn and the other for the movement of air masses. in the exhibition, these two meanings are intertwined. sometimes i travel with the wind, changing directions, exploring the differences between forecasts and actual experience. travelling and wandering is like an implied, invisible, yet felt inspiration for the creative process. i invite you to look at each installation in the three different rooms of the exhibition as separate mediums, segments that tell the story of a different journey.
photos: Viktorija Balkutė
crossings between (susikirtimai)
videos and sound recordings
from Lithuanian and Finnish railway
2025
(lady in the beginning asks the train inspector:
sorry! could you please tell me when is the earliest train leaving from Vilnius, (...) it's hard to leave from there?)
places happen to be different
and yet, we find the same things
and same questions in them
the lines meet and dissapear
from Lithuanian and Finnish railway
2025
(lady in the beginning asks the train inspector:
sorry! could you please tell me when is the earliest train leaving from Vilnius, (...) it's hard to leave from there?)
places happen to be different
and yet, we find the same things
and same questions in them
the lines meet and dissapear
next to the video the viewer can sit on a chair, that resembles public transport chairs. it’s a map of (my) Vilnius, that I have walked.
on the other side of it, there is a LED display, which usually would display the transport route and next stop. this time, it displays the view through the car window. the reflections of the road on the rear-view mirror.
photos: Viktorija Balkutė
on the other side of it, there is a LED display, which usually would display the transport route and next stop. this time, it displays the view through the car window. the reflections of the road on the rear-view mirror.
photos: Viktorija Balkutė
what the silence of a mountain looks like
"what the silence of the mountain looks like
a snowy peak, maybe,
how to listen to the unlistenable,
how to hear the unheard,
and if a tree falls in the forest
do you hear it fall
if you are not there?
words and silences,
silence cut-outs,
letter cut-outs,
and just like that, in fragments -
the sun never sets while we are here"
a snowy peak, maybe,
how to listen to the unlistenable,
how to hear the unheard,
and if a tree falls in the forest
do you hear it fall
if you are not there?
words and silences,
silence cut-outs,
letter cut-outs,
and just like that, in fragments -
the sun never sets while we are here"
40 sec loop, 2024
this piece is about Kilpisjarvi - a place I hadn't been to at the time, and had yet to go to in the future. I leaned on the fruits of my subconscious using automatic writing and a kind of poetry, as well as fragments and cut-outs of places I had already visited for the visuals and sound. The sound is smoothed out and joined by the dreamy notes of the synthesizer.
this piece is about Kilpisjarvi - a place I hadn't been to at the time, and had yet to go to in the future. I leaned on the fruits of my subconscious using automatic writing and a kind of poetry, as well as fragments and cut-outs of places I had already visited for the visuals and sound. The sound is smoothed out and joined by the dreamy notes of the synthesizer.
rhythms around
A photobook containing images I captured while walking around the city, mainly certain textures and rhythms I noticed around me.
2022
photos: personal archive
2022
photos: personal archive
fragments of journeys
photopolymer prints
2022
The quality of camera photos, like our memory, can be glitched and fragmented.
We cannot remember everything—we can only remember details.
From the videos I filmed during my trip from Tallinn to Helsinki and Vilnius, I selected five still frames, as if asking my memory to work with the memories of those specific moments, giving them more attention and time, slowing them down, pausing them.
I chose two extremes – a minimal fragment of the image and almost the entire image, except for a few
essential details.
photos: personal archive
2022
The quality of camera photos, like our memory, can be glitched and fragmented.
We cannot remember everything—we can only remember details.
From the videos I filmed during my trip from Tallinn to Helsinki and Vilnius, I selected five still frames, as if asking my memory to work with the memories of those specific moments, giving them more attention and time, slowing them down, pausing them.
I chose two extremes – a minimal fragment of the image and almost the entire image, except for a few
essential details.
photos: personal archive