You are invited to the opening-performance of young Anykščiai-born artist Elena Laurinavičiūtė’s exhibition of ceramic sound sculptures on Thursday, December 4 at 5:30 PM at the Chapel – the cultural creation center of Anykštėnai of the world.
The exhibition Protėvių dronai (Ancestors’ Drones) brings the artist back to her native region and invites visitors to experience the development of her work, where ceramic objects meet sound and performance. At the heart of the show are five ceramic pieces joined into an interactive installation that produces drone-like sounds — long, monotonous, interwoven frequencies that fill the space with a rhythmic pulse.
This installation grew out of an earlier version of the work Garsoraižiai (Sound Engravings) and has been expanded with new elements. The idea behind the pieces draws on ancient ceramic wind instruments: here clay functions not only as form but as a medium for sound, vibration, air movement, and breath — a material that itself becomes a living phenomenon.
The opening performance activates the installation, allowing viewers to experience it as a continually changing, living system in which the clay objects and the sound become one. It is a meeting of ancient ritual and contemporary sound technology, with the artist acting as an intermediary between the material and the sound that awakens it.
The exhibition explores how ceramics can embody invisible processes, reveal the vitality of matter, and create a relationship with space and the viewer. It invites audiences to experience sound as a living, physically felt phenomenon, linking tradition with contemporary experimentation and drawing attention to how our environment can be “alive” through sound and material.
Project funded by: Lithuanian Council for Culture
Media partner: the regional news portal and newspaper Anykšta
