a psycho-geographic reading of the oil network

Installation at the Kaunas biennale 2019 After Leaving / Before Arriving, curated by Elisabeth Del Prete, Daniel Milnes,Lýdia Pribišová, Neringa Stoškutė, Alessandra Troncone
High-performance plastic, UV print, Archival footage, Limited edition of multiples
Architecture in collaboration with Jurga Daubaraitė and Jonas Žukauskas (2016-2019)
Graphic design in collaboration with Gaile Pranckūnaitė and Marek Voida (2018)

The Druzhba project explores the cultural, political, and geographical territories that unfold in a fictional journey along the world’s longest crude oil pipeline, stretching 4,000 kilometers from Siberia, through the Baltic States, into Eastern and Central Europe. Druzhba, or “friendship” in Russian, is a master signifier, a grand-narrating, imperial structure meant at its inception in 1960 to “lead the world into a new dawn”. The project’s psycho-geographic readings reveal mechanisms of power and submission that righThe Druzhba project explores the cultural, political, and geographical territories that unfold in a fictional journey along the world’s longest crude oil pipeline, stretching 4,000 kilometers from Siberia, through the Baltic States, into Eastern and Central Europe. Druzhba, or “friendship” in Russian, is a master signifier, a grand-narrating, imperial structure meant at its inception in 1960 to “lead the world into a new dawn”. The project’s psycho-geographic readings reveal mechanisms of power and submission that rightfully belong to the past but still persist even today.