{"id":2632,"date":"2025-06-03T02:07:08","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T02:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nugu.lt\/us\/?p=2632"},"modified":"2026-03-23T02:05:52","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T02:05:52","slug":"druzhba-cac-vilnius-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nugu.lt\/?p=2632","title":{"rendered":"Druzhba, CAC Vilnius, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Druzhba project (2003-ongoing) is part of the exhibition \u201cBorders are nocturnal animals \/ Sienos yra naktiniai gyv\u016bnai\u201d<\/a>, curated by Neringa Bumblien\u0117 and \u00c9milie Villez and presented at the Contemporary Art Centre in Vilnius in 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rooted in the geopolitical turmoil caused by Russia\u2019s war in Ukraine, the exhibition explores the colonial histories of Lithuania and the region beyond, weaving connections into a broader international narrative. It is the second iteration of an exhibition presented simultaneously at KADIST Paris and the Palais de Tokyo in autumn 2024, in the framework of the Season of Lithuania in France. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Druzhba project explores the cultural, political, and geographical territories that unfold in a fictional journey along the world\u2019s longest crude oil pipeline, stretching 4,000 kilometers from Siberia, through Ukraine and Belarus to the Baltic States, Poland, Germany and other European countries. Druzhba, or \u201cfriendship\u201d in Russian, is a master signifier, a grand-narrating, imperial structure meant at its inception in 1960 to \u201clead the world into a new dawn\u201d. The project\u2019s psycho-geographic readings grapples with mechanisms of power and submission that rightfully belong to the past but still persist even today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Druzhba<\/em>, 2003-ongoing. Installation. High-performance plastic, UV print, Film archival footage transfer to video (Division of Image and Sound Documents at the Lithuanian Central State Archive).
Architecture in collaboration with Jurga Daubarait\u0117 and Jonas \u017dukauskas (2016). Graphic design in collaboration with Gaile Pranck\u016bnait\u0117 and Marek Voida (2018)
Thanks to Akademie Schloss Solitude, Jean-Baptiste Joly, Ivan Dolo\u017einsky, Lithuanian Film Centre, \u017divil\u0117 Mi\u010diulyt\u0117, Oleksiy Radynski, P\u00e9ter Zilahy<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Photo: Egl\u0117 Marija \u017delvyt\u0117<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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