Dainius Liškevičius

Dainius Liškevičius’ Lithuanian Pavilion is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities consisting of furniture, film, images, and books. Together, these objects attempt to write the Soviet Lithuanian history of art, focusing on the work of Antanas Kraujelis, Romas Kalanta and Bronius Maigis. Rather than artists, these three figures are, in fact, political protesters, and “their” works are made up entirely by Liškevičius in a style and method he chooses as appropriate for each of the characters. Aligning three political figures’ protests with contemporary art forms such as performance, video and installation, Liškevičius uses his protests-turned-artworks to reformulate the Soviet art-historical narrative.