1.O3Dunes, reconstructed

Video 4min 30 sec
Photo engravings on metal sheets 2024

Exhibited at Vilnius Culture Night 2026
A strip of sandy terrain, at times only 400 meters wide, separates the Baltic Sea from the Curonian Lagoon. This sand houses myths, legends, and songs of longing and belonging within a desolate landscape – from towns buried under the dunes to meticulously planted forests designed to anchor the shifting sands.

Is a landscape defined by its physical form, or by the songs written about it, the myths told to explain it, and the maps drawn to claim it? The project deconstructs the Lithuanian seaside through its mediated forms and reassembles it from scratch. Peeling back layers of symbolic intervention, we uncover not just a place, but a testament to the ways we shape and are shaped by the terrain.

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Augustina Lavickaitė

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