Emilija Škarnulytė and Anne Barlow, Director, Tate St Ives will discuss Škarnulytė’s new solo exhibition at Tate St Ives and her wider practice.
Viewing the world through the lens of a ‘future archaeologist’, Škarnulytė’s multi-screen, large-scale film installations explore ancient monuments, myths, decommissioned power plants, and ocean and river habitats.
Emilija Škarnulytė (born Lithuania, 1987) is an artist and filmmaker. Winner of the 2019 Future Generation Art Prize, her solo exhibition ‘Chambers of Radiance’ opened at the Pinchuk Art Centre in Kiev in 2020. Škarnulytė represented Lithuania at the XXII Triennale di Milano and was included in the Baltic Pavilion at the 2018 Venice Biennial of Architecture. She has had solo exhibitions at CAC, Vilnius and Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, and has participated in group presentations at Ballroom Marfa, Seoul Museum of Art, Kadist Foundation, and the First Riga Biennial. Her films have been screened at the Serpentine Gallery, UK, the Centre Pompidou, France and at film festivals in Rotterdam, Busan, and Oberhausen. She also founded and currently co-directs Polar Film Lab, a collective for analogue film practice located in Tromsø, Norway.
