Belly-up Dream (Dog or Fish?) | Zoe Williams + Sasha Wilde
April 4, 6 p.m. the first exhibition of the program Belly-up Dream (Dog or Fish?) opens, where you will be invited to enter the mysterious world of the artist Zoe Williams (UK/FR). Here, the boundaries between desire and despair blur, and the sad myth of Eros, which dominates the exhibition, allows you to enjoy the vibrations of unpredictable life and dreamlike intimacy. The works of Zoe Williams reveal sensuality, rebellion, and the ephemeral nature of existence - everything that helps us to forget the imposed inertia of serious life and fall into the majestic vortex of energies swirling around the world.
Later, at 7 p.m., performance artist Sasha Wilde (UK/LT) will enchant you with their sonic journey, a ritual of vocal witchcraft inspired by both personal experience and pop music sounds.
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Zoe Williams (she/her) lives and works in Marseille and London. Her practice incorporates a range of mediums including installation, moving images, ceramics, drawing, and performance, and is often collaborative in its process and outcome. These elements are combined to create immersive objects and environments, which conjure a playful and corrosive interchange between notions of the erotic and the grotesque, craft, ritual, gender, consumption, and excess.
She is represented by Ciaccia Levi Gallery, Paris-Milan, and has worked with a range of international institutions including Fraeme, La Friche la Belle de Mai, Marseille, Tate St-Ives, The Roberts Institute of Art, London, DCA, Dundee, Spike Island, Bristol, Dortmunder Kunstverein, Dortmund, Mimosa House, and many others.
Sasha Wilde (they/them) are self-taught sound, performance, and multimedia artists with a penchant for secret & the forbidden. A Lithuanian migrant based between London & Helsinki. Main themes of artistic practice include monstrosity, (trans)embodiment, language, and migration, eroticism and death, Vajrayana Buddhism and occultism as well as moral panic. The latter topics are also very closely related to Sasha Wilde's personal traumatic experience while living in a small Lithuanian town.
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Curator of the exhibition: Agnė Bagdžiūnaitė
The architects of the exhibition: Matas Šatūnas and Laura Kaminskaitė
Exhibition technician: Laura Skučaitė
Curator of the discursive and performative program: Edvinas Grinkevičius
Visual graphics: Kornelija Zizaitė
The event is part of the project "Belly-up Dream (Dog or Fish?)". The project is financed by the Lithuanian Council for Culture.
