Borders are Nocturnal Animals (Sienos yra naktiniai gyvūnai)

Curators: Neringa Bumblienė, Émilie Villez
Artists: Andrius Arutiunian, Beyond the post-soviet, Agnė Jokšė, Deimantas Narkevičius, Marija Olšauskaitė, Algirdas Šeškus, Emilija Škarnulytė, Anastasia Sosunova, Nomeda and Gediminas Urbonas, and others

The exhibition presents a dozen intergenerational artists: mostly Lithuanian, but also based in the wider region and France. Using forms, imagination and poetry as political tools, this exhibition offers a frail thread to read through complex colonial histories, realities, and visions of the future. The project stems from the present geopolitical turmoil caused by the Russian war in Ukraine and follows the multitude of ruptures and ripples it sends through space and time. Two years after the invasion started, what normality is possible in the vicinity of the conflict, while we witness history repeating itself? The exhibition points at untold histories of the region that until very recently were overshadowed by power discourses. Once told, can they reshape established narratives of the past and the present? The exhibition brings together artists that reflect on systems of beliefs and languages that carry resilience.