Photo Documentation: ‘Breaking the Joints’ at Sapieha Palace, Vilnius

The group exhibition Breaking the Joints explores the body’s role in the history of animation — from cartoon absurdities to real-world implications. Referencing early animation’s anatomical distortions, the exhibition examines how disfigurement, elasticity, and transformation are central both to animated realism and to broader social, cultural, and ecological narratives. Presented at the historically charged Sapieha Palace, the exhibition fuses optics, anatomy, and media critique in a striking, multilayered show.