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Spit and Image marks the first solo exhibition in Rome by the artist duo Dorota Gawęda and Eglė Kulbokaitė. The title, while originally signifying “perfect likeness,” is here expanded to suggest a nuanced doubleness— one that creates polyphonic and polyporous dimensions within a seemingly repetitive and mirrored structure. The exhibition space is transformed into an ambiguous zone of liminality, in which perceptual boundaries dissolve into a site of superimposition, entanglement, and chaos. Self and doppelgänger, body and technology, real and virtual, scent and mist: as various materialities and temporalities permeate and traverse this realm, a speculative con-temporary hauntology emerges. The artists position their Slavic and Baltic cultural background within a vision of “ancestrality”: Instead of indulging nostalgia, they endeavor to reactivate marginalized non-modern subjectivities through re-choreographed forms. Central to this constellation is the figure of the upiór, a vampire…
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Spit and Image marks the first solo exhibition in Rome by the artist duo Dorota Gawęda and Eglė Kulbokaitė. The title, while originally signifying “perfect likeness,” is here expanded to suggest a nuanced doubleness— one that creates polyphonic and polyporous dimensions within a seemingly repetitive and mirrored structure. The exhibition space is transformed into an ambiguous zone of liminality, in which perceptual boundaries dissolve into a site of superimposition, entanglement, and chaos. Self and doppelgänger, body and technology, real and virtual, scent and mist: as various materialities and temporalities permeate and traverse this realm, a speculative con-temporary hauntology emerges. The artists position their Slavic and Baltic cultural background within a vision of “ancestrality”: Instead of indulging nostalgia, they endeavor to reactivate marginalized non-modern subjectivities through re-choreographed forms. Central to this constellation is the figure of the upiór, a vampire…
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