AGENTS Video installation, 2020

Contemporary art in Lithuania from 1960 to the present’ Centre Pompidou, Paris

2024

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Of all these techniques, perhaps the “softest” and most aestheticized (and yet still brutal) is the production of a monumental marker, which inscribes a dominant cultural narrative in urban space through the sculptural reproduction of some bodies — and not others.

Paul B. Preciado

Agents is a moving image work which was created during the spring of 2020, contemplating on the folk art history and observing the effect of strict quarantine measures on people and their creativity. Revisiting and filming the sites with public sculpture made in traditional wood crafting motifs of her region, Sosunova notices how forests and parks are gradually filled with spontaneous vernacular art and temporary structures by its visitors. Investigating the agency behind the folk art revival and the vernacular creativity, the protagonist of the video initiates a dialogue with a wood artisan to express suspicions and learn what lies behind their intentions to reproduce ethnic art imagery and myths. As the conversation unfolds on whether the agency may be distributed around a host of artefacts enrolled in the realisation of our original intentions, the two in the car wait for an ‘agent’ to be sighted in the flesh and action.