In her work Miglė Križinauskaitė explores the relationship between body, place and memory – between seeing and being. The exhibition “between-beings” presents slide photography works and fragments of Super 8 mm film, reflecting on the inertia of travel, the limits of the gaze, and the significance of insight and embodied experience. The journey through the landscapes begins in the body – in the rhythm of the steps, the breath, the blink of an eye. The body registers what passes by: shadows, reflections, haze, light, sigh. Fragments of photography and film are transformed into analogue dreamscapes – images in which time slips, space dissolves, and memory twitches until the world becomes almost transparent. Travel is also understood here as an inner navigation – between the body, memory and a place where we are never fully “at home”. We search, we record, we “tick the boxes”, we move from point A to point B, we “haikin” – but rarely do we stop, look and listen. Places pass us by faster than the eye can take them in. The gaze becomes the surface, movement the force of inertia. Images slip away like a memory that does not want to be framed.

The works in the exhibition ask: what does it mean to be, to bear witness, to see a place without the desire to possess? Is it possible to look without wanting to belong? The laurel forests of La Gomera – a place where steps and fog become almost inseparable; the streets of Tbilisi – the electrified everyday; the highways of South Korea – reflections of a dream, where the gaze loses its bearings; the deserts of Vashlovani – where silence is not so much a void as a rhythm that the body has to learn to hear, and other visual notes of journeys that emerge out of the in-between-being state. These are liminal geographies, spaces between existence and disappearance. Silbo Gomer’s whistle – a voice turned into wind – cuts through this silence, reminding us that every gaze has a distance. This exhibition is an attempt to stop in that space, between the desire to perpetuate and the need to let go. Between a step and a flash, captured by the eye and the camera.

Miglė Križinauskaitė is an audiovisual artist, experimental film director, currently living and working in Utena. She graduated from the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre (LAMT) in 2020 with a Master’s degree in Film Directing, and is currently pursuing her artistic and scientific activity in practice-based doctoral studies in art (LAMT). Rooted in analogue photography and cinema, her work combines the principles of auto-ethnography and psychogeography to create analogue dreamscapes that balance between presence and memory. Migle’s short films have successfully toured international experimental film festivals.

The exhibition runs until 22 November.

Organiser – Klaipėda Branch of the LDS.
Exhibition coordinator – Rosana Lukauskaitė

Sponsors: the Klaipėda City Municipality

Opening hours of the Klaipėda Gallery: Wednesday-Friday 12-19, Saturday 11-16
The Gallery is closed on public holidays.

Photography and filming will take place during the event. Please note that participants may be visible in photographs and videos that are published in media outlets to publicise the event.