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Aldona

Emilija Škarnulytė

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Staff Picks Aldona
Emilija Škarnulytė
2013

13 Minutes

Staff Picks

Date
May 1–31, 2022

In the spring of 1986, Aldona lost her vision and became permanently blind. The nerves in her eyes were poisoned. Doctors claimed that it was probably due to the Chernobyl power plant explosion. The film follows her through a daily sojourn to Grutas Park, touching both the past and the present.

Aldona is presented on e-flux Video & Film as the May 2022 edition of Staff Picks.

For more information, contact program [​at​] e-flux.com.

Category
Film
Subject
Nuclear War, Accidents & Disasters, Disability, Eastern Europe, History, Pollution & Toxicity
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Emilija Škarnulytė is an artist and filmmaker, born in Vilnius, Lithuania. Working between documentary and the imaginary, Škarnulytė makes films and immersive installations exploring deep time and invisible structures, from the cosmic and geologic to the ecological and political. Winner of the 2019 Future Generation Art Prize and the Ars Fennica Award 2023, Škarnulytė represented Lithuania at the XXII Triennale di Milano and was included in the Baltic Pavilion at the 2018 Venice Biennale of Architecture. Her immersive installation Æqualia (2023)is opening at Canal Projects, New York on January 19, 2024. She most recently presented works at MORI Art Museum, Kiasma, Gwangju Biennale, Helsinki Biennale, Vilnius Biennale, Henie Onstad Triennale, and Vilnius Biennale of Performance Art. She has had solo exhibitions at Ferme-Asile, Sion (2023); Kunsthaus Pasquart, Biel/Bienne (2021); Den Frie, Copenhagen (2021); National Gallery of Vilnius (2021); Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (2017); and Contemporary Art Centre CAC of Vilnius (2015). She has films in the collections of the Centre Pompidou, Kadist Foundation, HAM, and IFA, and her works have been screened at the Tate Modern and Serpentine Gallery in London, Centre Pompidou in Paris, Museum of Modern Art in New York, and numerous film festivals including in Rotterdam, Busan, and Oberhausen. She is a founder and currently co-directs Polar Film Lab, a collective for analogue film practice located in Tromsø, Norway and is a member of the artist duo New Mineral Collective.

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