Opening: March 5th, 6p.m
Exhibition will be on display: March 5th – 22nd
The exhibition presents the search for personal identity through individual and collective memory. The audio-visual documentary letter "To You, Sleeping person" is the artist's bachelor's thesis work based on a letter from her late father, translated from Polish and written twenty-one years ago, which the artist has animated and interpreted through her personal experience. Twenty-one years later, Ingrid has returned to the same places she spent as a child with her parents. She combined the documented material of the trip with her dad's film photographs and a film camera in the work. By comparing what happened in the past and the present, the artist explores the relationship between false memory and "real" memory in relation to the experience of the human body, the relationship between time and space. The video footage of the “Absence” experiment, in which a portrait of her dad is burnt as if alluding to an attempt to forget painful memories, and the search for the result, which consists of twelve 100x150mm photographs of her dad's last trip, set alight on cotton, speak about the existence of memories stored in the human subconscious.
Ingrid Beata Savicka (b. 1999) is a graphic designer, interdisciplinary artist, who graduated from the Vilnius Academy of Arts in 2023 with a BA in Graphic Design and is currently studying for a MA in Animation. Her work explores memory processes, the perception of false memory, the relationship between time and space and the human body, and paradigms of human relationships.
