Ydilė, 2023
3-channel moving image installation, 12’ video loop
It was never otherwise. Two forces collide in the work: the human and nature. They act as adversary energies, yet at the same time endow each other with the power needed to spread, unveiling the law of coexistence. The moving images reveal the layer of the incessant, mechanical human-driven terraforming of the planet and the adaptation of such (re)formed terrain to human needs. The recurring mountain motif on the screen is terricones of Phosphogypsum waste piled up in the Kėdainiai district (Lithuania), the hometown of the author. Ydilė, a play on words, is a romanticised toxic landscape that appears in the work and conveys the ambivalent meaning of a significant landscape. It is a portmanteau of the Lithuanian term idilė (idyll), which brings to mind a quiet carefree life tinged with nostalgia, and ydingumas (vice), a flaw or a hazard menacing the seemingly idyllic landscape.
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