“When the clouds descend on the land, when the mist raises from within it, all is transformed. The shapes, previously neatly defined by the relationship of light and shadow, dissolve and turn into a matter that vibrates along with the particles of water breaking the light. The horizon becomes uncertain, the landscape becomes uncertain: no shapes are fixed and nothing is real, if real at all possible.

I, too, become uncertain. I look at the horizon and observe the landscape stretching out and away from below and beyond my feet, and I do not know what it is.”

Opalescent by Daina Pupkevičiūtė is rather a dialogue than an exhibition. Sound and video materials and objects that participate in it are fragments, reverberations, paraphrases and reflections from the research project she is at the moment carrying out, within it she looks into the relationships between humans and nonhuman animals, plants and abiotic vectors in the context of climate crisis. This dialogue is a continuation of the research trajectories – relationalities, care and catastrophe – Daina has embarked on since 2018, expanding further. This time living, growing participants of the exhibition share the space of the gallery with the slowly moving fog, with sounds collected in the Alpine horizon as well as recorded in the studio as well as with the human voice.

Author is thankful to Magali Gribaudo for the dialogue sans fin.

Funding: fieldwork (July 2021 – May 2022) was carried out with the support of European Regional Development Fund; residency period in Maajaam (Estonia) to prepare for the exhibition and the exhibition itself were supported by Lithuanian Council for Culture.

Exhibited at Meno Parkas gallery.