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Dusk is the time when matter still breathes, yet is already beginning to solidify into a form; a connective state – not day, yet not night. It is a vibration between the two; sometimes vivid, sometimes dwindling, but constantly changing in its eternal transformation. Existing at the threshold between being and its absence.
The dim light of dusk obscures our vision. In this light, the exhibition unfolds as an imagined reliquary.
The Latin word reliquiae means “remains” or “relics” – those things which survive death. In the Middle Ages, relics famed for their miraculous powers travelled across Europe from one place to another. For the faithful, the touch of a saint’s dead body carried the hope of eternal life. Body parts, allegedly of saints, often came from many different people. Pope Paul VI collected 3.5 kilograms of Saint Apollonia’s teeth; Saint John the Baptist had at least four heads, each kept in a different church. Bodies without identity, bones without names, were sometimes composed into a single sculpture. Skin, fingers, hands, feet, heads, tongues, hearts, hair and bones were hidden within a figure resembling a deceased body, dressed in sumptuous garments.
Clothing, gently covering our bodies, also conceals – like a second skin – not just the body itself, but also our vulnerability and impermanence.
The relic becomes a way to overcome death – to unite, like a joint connecting bones, the fleeting and the eternal.
At the boundary between garment and sculpture, can clothing dress only the human body?
Opening: December 5, 2025, 6 p.m.
Exhibition dates: December 5–31, 2025.
Working hours: Monday to Friday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
SODAS 2123 Project Space, Vitebsko st. 21/23, Vilnius
Admission is free.
The exhibition is funded by the Lithuanian Council for Culture.