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On 9 January at 6PM, the exhibition “Circuit Board” by Algirdas Jakas will open in the project space of the cultural complex SODAS 2123 (Vitebsko g. 23, 2nd floor, Vilnius).
In the aluminium panels, the layers of time reveal themselves in different forms – as drawn fragments, or tightly drilled silhouettes. Mechanically screwed-on references to smart devices mask traces of time, hiding the beginning and the origin of the time of the screen light.This could be a time before the silicon revolution, or just the beginning of it. The point of view is non-human. It is the last frame of a drone flight or a falling phone. The microchip itself seems to be trying to replicate a human silhouette, to cut out an ear, to find the curve of a spine. Body parts turn into icons of different proportions, showing their insides. Wrenches communicate with microchips, all the indicator lights glow at the same time, and the mechanical age here goes hand in hand with transistors, as if trying to hold back the inevitable epoch of anxiety.
Algirdas Jakas is an artist currently based in Vilnius, who studied graphic arts at the Vilnius Academy of Arts and sculpture at the Hamburg University of the Arts (HFBK).
His artistic practice focuses on the synthesis of anxiety and different forms of self-diagnosis. Using materials and techniques associated with hobbies or therapeutic activities (e.g. drawing, DIY aesthetics), he explores individual self-help practices to create “instruments of anxiety”. He is also interested in the translucency of the body and its datafication, as well as in technologies of hope. This often relates to the history and specificity of the project site and becomes an additional part of the work.
Funded by the Lithuanian Council for Culture
Exhibition will be open: 09.01.2025 – 30.01
Graphic design by Eglė Ruibytė