Longing for the End of Empires: Eglė Budvytytė’s animism sings anarchy at the 2026 Lithuania Pavilion in Venice
Eglė Budvytytė’s animism sings anarchy presented at the 2026 Lithuania Pavilion in Venice takes the form of a three-channel installation complemented by a minimalist but experiential exhibition design and some additional sculptural elements alluding to the content of the films. Result of a multi-layered research project, it engages with the feminist reinterpretation of the Neolithic in Europe carried out by Marija Gimbutas, a prolific mid-century Lithuanian-American anthropologist and linguist. Gimbutas’s visionary and often provocative research on matrilineal societies and their peaceful potential found resonance within some feminist currents as well as wider public in the 1970s-1980s.
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