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3/64/65/66/6Conspiratorial Status of Iodine (2022)
Installation, metal and print
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Years of imposed Iodine deficiency and the fear of nuclear power plant emergencies have made Iodine a household name in post-Soviet Lithuania. The installation uses the element as a lens to explore fear, misinformation, and political history intertwining as a scientific material becomes charged with suspicion and superstition. Combining found footage, archival fragments, and scientific measurements, the work traces how facts dissolve into myth and how the search for order and blame gives rise to conspiracies.