Egle Budvytyte 

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Leap. 2009. Video, sound, 5 min.


The film features:
How to access the dead
How to enter a child’s head and a bird’s body
How architecture can be used and abused
To jump, to stretch, to hide

Egle Budvytyte’s work focuses on how our awareness of and sensitivity to the environment is constructed and conditioned. Using radio broadcasts, videos and semi-scripted situations the artist questions our codes of behaviour and the idea of architecture and urban layouts as expressions of ideologies of progress, efficiency and economic growth.

Biography:

Egle Budvytyte (b. in 1981, Vilnius, Lithuania) lives and works in Vilnius and Amsterdam. Budvytyte studied at the Art Academy in Vilnius and at the Audio Visual department of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam. She received her MA in Fine Arts at the Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam in 2008.

Her group shows include:
Paper Exhibition. Artists Space, NYC, USA, 2009
Space Oddity. Maison Folie Wazemmes, Lille, France, 2009.
If We Can’t Get It Together. Power Plant, Toronto, Canada, 2008.
FOYER: language and space at the border. CAC, Vilnius, Lithuania, 2008.
My Travels With Barry. TENT., Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 2008.
Conspire. Transmediale, Berlin, Germany, 2008.
The Joy Is Not Mentioned. Cat’s Pyjamas Playing Bingo With You. CAC, Vilnius, Lithuania, 2007.
Vilnius Is Burning. Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino, Italy, 2007.
Whenever It Starts It Is The Right Time – Strategies for a discontinuous future. Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany, 2007.