An installation by the world-renowned artist Yoko Ono, Ex It, will be on display in the main operations room of the Kaunas branch of the Bank of Lithuania, a famous example of interwar Kaunas architecture. The installation consists of 100 wooden coffins of different sizes with fruit trees growing out of them and a sound recording of living nature. It is a powerful image of the aftermath of war or natural disaster, a metaphor for the resilience of life and the vitality of nature. As the artist herself says, “Ex It is life as a continuation”
This installation is the precursor to Yoko Ono’s major retrospective, which will be presented at Kaunas Picture Gallery in September this year. The exhibition, titled “The Learning Garden of Freedom”, will feature a wide range of works reflecting Yoko Ono’s various creative periods and practices, from conceptual art and experimental cinema, to spatial installations, objects and textual works. It is also symbolic that the exhibition is being held at the Kaunas Picture Gallery located right next to the childhood home of Onoäs friend, George Mačiūnas, the founder of the Fluxus movement.
