The November edition of Moving Images at Sapieha Palace offers a unique opportunity to explore the work of artist Eglė Budvytytė, whose work will be presented in the Lithuanian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale next year. The event will feature her latest film Warmblooded and Earthbound (2024), followed by a conversation with the artist. We will also revisit a selection of her earlier, rarely shown works, discuss her creative practice, and hear behind-the-scenes stories about preparing for the Venice Art Biennale.
Programme:
16:00–18:00 Screening of Warmblooded and Earthbound (30 min, looped)
Warmblooded and Earthbound is a film exploring intimacies between lands and bodies. The work delves into themes of ritual, death, clay, care and community. Set against Lithuanian landscapes, the film moves between rivers and various limestone and clay quarries, dissolving any hierarchies between body and landscape, to better understand them as deeply intertwined. The choreographed scenes and song lyrics draw inspiration from multiple sources, including twentieth-century Lithuanian archaeologist Marija Gimbutas’ research and theories on Neolithic matrilineal societies, particularly their burial rituals and the non-separability of the sacred and the everyday.
18:00–19:00 Conversation with the artist and screening of earlier works
Eglė Budvytytė was born in 1981 in Kaunas, Lithuania. She is based in Vilnius and Amsterdam. Her work has been exhibited at the 59th Venice Biennale in 2022, the Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art RIBOCA 2 and the Renaissance Society in Chicago, among others. She was artist in residence at the Pavillon, Palais de Tokyo (Paris, 2012) and at Wiels, Contemporary art centre, (Brussels, 2013).
Partners of the event: Lithuanian National Art Museum and Nationational Gallery of Art