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Exhibition Statement
My grandfather once told me about a story he was planning to write. It was about a journey he had taken from his hometown of Vilnius to the Curonian Spit, which separates the Curonian lagoon from the Baltic Sea’s southeastern coast. He departed on that journey, as a somewhat modern Baltic hunter, in search for the earliest catechism written in Old Prussian, around AD 1400, and said to be buried within the dunes of the spit. The catechism also included, so he was told, a mysterious “footnote,” written in Hebrew and serving as an important key to the text, without which the text could not be fully deciphered. Being fluent in both languages, he was hired by a local archbishop eager to find the original text and its footnote (though he already held a printed copy in his hands from the 16th century). He equipped my grandfather with a crumbled map that indicated the catechism’s exact location. Because it seemed completely hopeless, my grandfather was astounded to find the catechism, including its footnote, in the exact place indicated by the map. He could not immediately recognize nor read the footnote, because it was written densely, by an encumbered hand. Back in Vilnius, feeding the archbishop’s discontent, all he managed to ascertain was that its subject matter was maybe one of the earliest references to what later came to be known as the .
Drawing its inspiration from various fields of knowledge such as cartography, metaphysics, theology, psycho-geography and archeology, the exhibition includes seven works of art. These works are conceived and presented as “maps” that were created with material remnants from the journey’s terrain (stones, wood, flora, field recordings) and psychological/experiential remnants that surfaced during the journey.
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