DILUVIAL VALLEYS
16 04–22 05 2021
     Artist:
Anastasia Sosunova
     Curator:
Vaida Stepanovaite

The exhibition follows the floods,- those arriving suddenly, flowing over and back, sweeping away. Catastrophic waters having bursted in times of the past, pressured and shaped the surfaces. Sowed the natural furrows with stones and fossilised creatures that appear within the openings of the earth layers. Diluvial geology explores these layers, reading out the origin of the world in their hollows and streaks. Inflows of emotions and changes leave curious traces as well. Sometimes, when looking for a safer hill, forest, or valley, we inhabit the neighborhoods – closed off, private, fenced. With signs of warning, we defend ourselves against the sudden ebbs and flows, against the currents unknown. The exhibition takes these myths and objects of creation, and seeks to use them anew — repurposing the recurring visions into images filled with the pleasure of adornment, into things of everyday, and mythical artifacts; they will be read by the geologists of the future.

Diluvial Valleys comes out of themes and approaches long developed in the creative work of Anastasia Sosunova. Her interdisciplinary practice consists of video, installation, sculpture, graphic, and texts. By employing personal stories, images framing the locations, and subtle material gestures that people leave in their habitats, Anastasia weaves them into wider stories about the communities and identities to come. Anastasia has recently shown her work at: in 2021, group show On Survival (Galerie Britta Rettberg, Munich); in 2020, Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art 2, Artists’ Film International (Whitechapel Gallery, London), Double Exposure / Roots to Routes (Le Corbusier, Manifesta 13, Marseille), Baltic Triennial 14: Intro ‘The Maze and The Lighthouse’ (CAC Vilnius), and elsewhere.

www.anastasiasosunova.com

Video work in the exhibition is presented together with Videograms platform (www.videograms.online).

* Thank you:

Exhibition and publication graphic design:
Vytautas Volbekas

Video work soundtrack:
Miša Skalskis

3D elements animation for video work:
Laurynas Keleras

English text proofreading for video work:
Noah Brehmer

Exhibition installation:
Antanas Stanislauskas

Financed by:
Lithuanian Council for Culture

Partners:
„JCDecaux Lietuva“, Videograms, project space Kabinetas

Biggest possible thanks goes to:
Edgaras Gerasimovičius, Monika Lipšic, Marija Nemčenko, Audrius Pocius, Jeronimas Seibutis, Rūta Stepanovaitė, Vaida Stepanovaitė, Dalibor Sternadel, Aliona Viršutienė