The LNMA presents a publication Pakui Hardware and Marija Teresė Rožanskaitė Inflammation dedicated to the Lithuanian pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennial  

The Lithuanian National Museum of Art (LNMA) presents a publication Inflammation introducing the Lithuanian pavilion at the 60th International Venice Biennial. The Lithuanian pavilion represented by Pakui Hardware (Neringa Černiauskaitė and Ugnius Gelguda), and Marija Teresė Rožanskaitė (1933–2007), with production by the LNMA, opens on 20th April. The artwork by the artists is linked by the themes of medicine, control, natural, cosmic and industrial settings. The pavilion and the publication likewise span the experience by different generations to explore the inflammatory impact by current economic and social conditions on (post)human bodies. The inspiration comes from the most recent book by Rupa Marya and Raj Patel Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice, anchored on the concept of an inflammation as a metaphor incorporating the systemic wrongs that afflict humanity and the planet.  

 

The publication features texts by Arūnas Gelūnas, Estelle Hoy, Išora x Lozuraitytė Studio, Valentinas Klimašauskas, Inga Lāce and João Laia. According to the contributors, this joint appearance of the artwork by Rožanskaitė and Pakui Hardware links the protagonists, environments and the moments of crisis to arrive at a metabolic balance and “to cool down” the highly feverish human and planetary bodies.  

 

“The visionary glance by the world-famous contemporary artist duo Pakui Hardware provocatively pierces the pestering wounds of humanity: our bodies and the body of our planet, agonised by the pandemic, social, economic and military inflammations,” Dr Arūnas Gelūnas, director general of the Lithuanian National Museum of Art and commissioner of the future Lithuanian pavilion at the Venice Biennial says.  

 

The publication Inflammation will be available for purchase at the Venice Biennial and the LNMA e-shop.