Emilija Škarnulytė, born in 1987 in Vilnius. She works primarily with “Deep Time,” a concept of geological time into which she integrates the cosmic, ecological and political. Her work has been featured in solo shows at the Pinchuk Art Center, Kiev (2020) and Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (2017). She was the winner of the highly endowed Pinchuk Future Award in 2018 and the KINO DER KUNST Project Prize in 2017.
Selected group exhibitions: XXII Triennale di Milano; Sami Contemporary Art Center, Karasjok; Screen City Biennial, Stavanger; Seoul Museum of Art; Toronto Biennial of Art (2019); Serpentine Galleries, London.
Selected films: Deep Point Cloud (2019), Sirenomelia (2018) and Point Cloud Therapy (2017).
KINO DER KUNST 2020
Mirror Matter
LTU/DEU 2018, HD, 12’, OHNE DIALOG/NO DIALOGUE
SOUND: Jokūbas Čižikas
WELTPREMIERE/WORLD PREMIERE
A cinematic journey into the interior of Geneva’s CERN combined with scientific images from the Super-Kamiokande Neutrino Observatory in Japan and the European Organization for Nuclear Research. The images are made to float by means of reflections, just like the spaceship in Stanley Kubrick’s 2001 – A Space Odyssey (1968), and serve as souvenirs of our bygone beliefs about the future—a meditation on the transience of contemporary science
