Fulfilment, 2024
site-specific object
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M-18 Klaipėda St Francis of Assisi Monastery Art Gallery 1252, Savanorių g. 4
Medieval city builders believed that the earthly city was a reflection of the heavenly city. After my brother’s death, I found a paper brick on a shelf in his closet, where important things and books were kept. The inscription read: ‘I bought a brick for the construction of the St Francis Oncology Centre in Klaipėda’. The paper brick was a promise, a plan for the future of the building. Not long after, a real building was erected on a paper foundation. The paper brick, printed 17 years ago, is older than the masonry that stands here. On Earth, they also find debris from cosmic bodies older than the Earth itself. The cornerstone brick is returning to its future home.
Brick By Brick, 2024
performative guided tour
2024-09-21 15.00
M Klaipėda St Francis of Assisi Monastery Art Gallery 1252, Savanorių g. 4
The collection of the Monastery of St. Francis of Assisi exhibits the Stations of the Cross by Aleksandra Kašuba, created in 1960 for the Lithuanian Franciscan Chapel in Brooklyn (New York, USA). In addition to mosaics, Kašuba also created volumetric reliefs from the bricks used in the construction of the building. Aleksandra Kašuba rediscovered brick and created spectacular scores for public spaces in New York. During the tour, we will read brick patterns and build a paper city.
Laima Kreivytė
Laima Kreivytė is an independent curator, artist and writer. She teaches at the Vilnius Academy of Arts. She has curated more than 70 exhibitions in Lithuania and abroad, including the Baltic Pavilion at the 3rd Prague Biennial and the Lithuanian Pavilion at the 53rd Venice Biennale. She participates in exhibitions solo and with the group Cooltūristės. One of the founders of the National Emancipation Day, author and signatory of the Declaration of 17 February. She has published two books of poetry and compiled albums of the works of Marija Teresė Rožanskaitė, Kęstutis Zapkus, Jurga Barilaitė, Igoris Piekuras and Milda Drazdauskaitė. She hosts the LRT radio programme “From the Balcony”.
Organiser: Klaipėda Culture Communication Centre.
Funded by the Lithuanian Council for Culture and Klaipėda City Municipality.