Disappearing Act (video installation in five monitors, 2002)

“Disappearing Act” was created especially for the exhibition of young Lithuanian and Latvian artists in Vilnius Contemporary Art Centre. It was shown in five monitors scattered all over the two floors of CAC, among the pieces of other artists and in transit spaces. A glance at one of these monitors would throw a viewer several meters (since every of the fives objects in the video were shot in the CAC) and several moment (since they were shot during the night, in the dark space) away. Every one of the five easily identifiable objects – a chair, a trash bin, a column, a door – would then, in few moments, suddenly move, peel away from its colorless “skull” and slide away in a shape of a light, which bears all the visible characteristics of the real object… This way an object, which at the moment of perception is actually right next to a person, but also hides in different place and time, would irreversible and repeatedly disappear in delusion.

by Virginija Januskeviciute for youngartists.lt