Deep Diving Cold War Toxic Legacy.

Emilija Škarnulytė is an artist and filmmaker born in 1987 in Vilnius, Lithuania. Working between documentary and the imaginary, Emilija Škarnulytė creates films and immersive installations that explore deep time and invisible systems, from cosmic and geological to ecological and political. From the Arctic to the Mediterranean and from Japan to New Mexico, Cold War military bases, decommissioned nuclear power plants, and deep-sea data storage units become relics of a lost human culture. Her often hypnotic video and sound objects examine the invisible relationships between the physical world and our social imagination, from the notion of geological time and its influence on our relationship with history, to the way in which violent conflicts are inscribed in the structure of the Earth and vice versa. 

Winner of the 2019 Future Generation Art Prize and Prix Ars Fennica 2023, Emilija Škarnulytė represented Lithuania at the XXII Milan Triennial and was included in the Baltic Pavilion at the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale. Her work will be presented at the Palais de Tokyo (after the Centre Pompidou) on 16 October as part of the Lithuanian season, and will also be the subject of a solo exhibition at the Tate in 2025.

During the event, the artist will present various fragments of her works and exchange with Maxime Forest, Senior Researcher and Lecturer at Sciences Po (OFCE, PRESAGE) and co-founder of Kolektiv Cité Radieuse and Juste Kostikovaitė, curator. This will be also the opportunity to introduce a video installation produced with Sciences Po students and devoted to a dozen of leading artists and curators from Central-Eastern Europe in presence of Gabrielle Rennuit, one of the students involved.

The event is organized as part of the FUTURE MUSEUM programme, within the frame of the Season of Lithuania in France

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