PAULINA PUKYTĖ

A small part of the back wall of LitExpo building and the ground directly underneath it have been affected – they are strangely different from their surroundings. At this point two adjacent but unrelated surfaces – the vertical and the horizontal – have become interconnected. But there is no certainty: what is the cause and what is the effect? Why is this here? Has something happened here? Is it something beautiful or is it “merely” a mistake, an accident, an anomaly? Or is it a fantasy: something that exists and does not exist at the same time, something meaningless and out of the ordinary – something incomprehensible that perhaps doesn't need to be understood, just experienced?
“Uncertainty” is an intervention into public space, a gentle, ephemeral artistic gesture that transforms banal into poetic, mysterious, and metaphysical, thus questioning the “certainty” of the exhibition building – both its form and its content. Mistake and doubt as values in a very clear-cut world.
This artwork not only uses an accidental detail found on the wall of the building, but also appropriates the entire building. The installation's location “behind the corner” is an important part of the artwork: it is outside, in a public space, but at the same time it is “hidden” in a not very public area. As the crystal beads seem precious and unprotected, the potential interactivity of the work occurs: the viewers might be tempted to pick up a bead or two