Our Sky (video projection, 2003)

We see a young man and a young woman from behind as they watch the wide blue starry sky above their heads. “Our Sky” can be read in several ways; directly, as it was introduced here; or less directly, but then one will need to know few more things about this piece. The people in the projection are the two artists who made it, and they're enjoying their own work, or, to be more exact, their idea to film cemetery during the night of All Saints, when the candles are lit up on the graves and it all looks so much like a starry sky – and to project it upside-down, like a sky, which one could enjoy watching.

Like in many of their works, G-Lab exploit the infinite (though binary) relation between reality and representation, open for complements, comments and observations and are looking for associations and joints that would break the straight cause-effect line (backwards as well: do not stars in the sky look like graves, and if you, by chance, name your own star – what then?...) On the eve of All Saints boys would tell girls that if you name, by chance, your own star, you will die immediately. This is a key to the third reading of this work.

by Virginija Januskeviciute for youngartists.lt