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Alert Objects: Group exhibition

Past exhibition
13 December 2019 - 24 January 2020
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Curators: Vytautas Gečas and Marija Puipaitė

 

Vartai gallery launches a new series of annual exhibitions dedicated to contemporary design. The aim of the project, realized in collaboration with Lithuanian and foreign designers, curators, and institutions, is to create a platform for continuous presentation of unique design works in the context of thematic exhibitions.

 

Alert Objects, the first exhibition in the series, features design projects by nine authors. Many of the participants are alumni of the Design Academy Eindhoven, and their practice shares an approach to making objects as a way to address and influence the broader cultural and social field. The title of the exhibition refers to the logical contradiction evident in our daily life: the things surrounding us are not just inanimate and passive signs of their time and culture, but rather have subjective qualities, impose their order, and shape our self-perception.

 

Exhibition curators

Vytautas Gečas and Marija Puipaitė

 

Exhibition artists:

Bram Vanderbeke (BE)

Wendy Andreu (FR)

Lucas Muñoz Muñoz (ESP)

Paulius Vitkauskas (LT)

Martynas Kazimierėnas (LT)

Marija Puipaitė (LT)

Vytautas Gečas (LT)

Satomi Minoshima (JP)

Hansol Kim  (KR)

Etienne Marc (FR)

 

Maecenas

Živilė and Jonas Garbaravičius

 

Patron

Renata and Rolandas Valiūnas

 

Exhibition supported by

Pacai Hotel, ACM

 

Gallery supported by

“Plieno Spektras”, PI “Meno Fondas”, Vilma Dagilienė, Romas Kinka, “Clear Channel”, “Lietuvos Rytas”, “Ekskomisarų Biuras”

 

We are grateful to

“Rokiškio Sūris”

 

Graphic design

Gailė Pranckūnaitė

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Press release

Curators: Vytautas Gečas ir Marija Puipaitė

 

Participants:

Wendy Andreu (FR)

Vytautas Gečas (LT)

Martynas Kazimierėnas (LT)

Hansol Kim (KR)

Etienne Marc (FR)

Satomi Minoshima (JP)

Lucas Muñoz Muñoz (ESP)

Marija Puipaitė (LT)

Bram Vanderbeke (BE)

Paulius Vitkauskas (LT)

 

Gallery Vartai launches a new series of annual exhibitions dedicated to contemporary design. The aim of the project, realized in collaboration with Lithuanian and foreign designers, curators, and institutions, is to create a platform for continuous presentation of unique design works in the context of thematic exhibitions.

 

The first exhibition in the series Alert Objects presents design projects by ten authors, of which four objects by Lithuanian designers were created specifically for this show. Many of the participants are alumni of the Design Academy Eindhoven: their practice shares a contextual approach to making objects. If design is a creative field directly related to improvement of our daily life, in the face of today’s ecological and political crisis it can no longer be focused solely on the search for formal and functional solutions to reach an aesthetic result. Hence, contextual design perceives objects as actants in the network of social, cultural, and technological meanings, which transcend the conventional borders of creativity and science, and whose aesthetic and practical value is inseparable from their innovative contribution to positive social processes.

 

The title of the exhibition Alert Objects refers to a logical contradiction evident in our daily life. On the one hand, the things surrounding us are part of passive inanimate nature, resources or inventions  supposed to serve us and make our daily routine easier. On the other hand, we often unconsciously treat things as living beings, succumbing to their imposed order that shapes our habits and self-perception. The exhibition is like a middle point in this dual relationship with things. It proposes to envision them as tirelessly conscious – sensing and having an opinion about events around them, but simultaneously physically yielding to be used (whether willingly or not). The alertness of objects is presented in the show as a critical imagination exercise intended to retune our personal relationship with the surrounding material environment which we are an integral part of. The exhibition seeks to redirect the delusional ideas of exerting control over nature, rooted in superfluous mass production, inert consumption and bleak everyday experience, towards an intimate and responsible being together in a shared world.

 

The exhibition is structured as a set of different situations taking place between the exhibits, while the visitors are invited to take part in them as if they were the things’ guests. All of the design objects in the exhibition are furniture items or interior elements with a clear function which they seem to have abandoned for a moment in favour of an activity known only to them. Acting as the protagonists of the exhibition and simultaneously the backdrop for their own actions, they spoof the familiar world much like cartoon characters and remind us that this world is largely human-made. Thus, the order of things in which we participate is our responsibility and it can be rearranged according to the need, like the laws of physics in animation.

 

Edgaras Gerasimovičius

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  • Koen Kleijn, art historian and writer shares his thoughts on contemporary design exhibition "Alert Objects" at Galerija VARTAI.

    Koen Kleijn, art historian and writer shares his thoughts on contemporary design exhibition "Alert Objects" at Galerija VARTAI.

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  • Talk 5: What contemporary design can do?

    Talk 5: What contemporary design can do?

    Conversation with Koen Kleijn, Vytautas Gečas and Marija Puipaitė, moderated by Mantas Lesauskas Read more

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