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Fog of Signatures (digital collage), 2024
Digital collage on tarpaulin
This work reuses a 19th-century photograph of Vilnius (Churches of Vilnius from the Castle Hill, 1870–1880) by Juozapas Čechavičius, in which the Old Town skyline is crowned by the Missionary Ensemble — often called the “baroque crown” of Vilnius. Onto this familiar landscape, the artist layers fragments of contemporary documents, tracing the human hand behind decisions that reshape the city.
By juxtaposing past and present, the collage questions the decision-making processes of urban development: how new constructions dismantle the value of historical landscapes, how each part relates to the whole, and how responsibility is collectively shared. Viewers are invited to become active participants in debates on cultural memory and heritage protection.
The piece forms part of the broader artistic research project White Darkness — a protest against the erosion of the Vilnius Old Town (UNESCO) cultural landscape for short-term private gain. It asks: Who owns heritage, and who bears the loss? Is it only a flawed legal framework, or also our own complicity and tolerance of irreversible damage? The project seeks to expose and dismantle the “fog” that conceals harmful decisions, urging critical reflection on the politics of landscape transformation.
Credits:
– Historical photograph courtesy of the Wroblewski Library of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences
– Project partner: Paulius Noreika
– Exhibition: Titanikas Gallery, Vilnius, June 2025
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