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The Gearwheel, Hardworking Hands, and the Tired Exhibition Visitor
Sep 11 2025
Editorial
The exhibition unfolds as a slow encounter with labour and its afterimages. It moves between monumental gestures and exhausted bodies, between the heroic push of a gearwheel and the quiet ache of hands, backs, and eyes worn down by time. Surfaces here feel rubbed, overheated, overused—as if work has seeped into them. The space holds different tempos of effort: the historical weight of labour made visible, and the present-day body that drifts through the exhibition after a long day, searching for a place to pause. In this setting, work is no longer heroic or hidden—it lingers in gestures, in tired movements, and in the shared experience of being present, still working, still looking.
team:
Agnė Bagdžiūnaitė ir Petras Kalpokas,
Irena Haiduk, Morta Jonynaitė, Tomasz Kobialka, Ieva Rižė, Șerban Savu.
Curator: Vaida Stepanovaitė
Nerijus Rimkus
Translations and editing:
Rosana Lukauskaitė, Joseph Everatt
Anna Chostegian is taking care of exhibition and greets the visitor.
Gabrielė Černiavskaja
Technical implementation:
Matas Šatūnas