where does internal rot come from? (2025)
Group exhibition "Trialogue", Šiauliai Art Gallery, Lithuania, 2025.10
the blue rot waits for the end of the world, and with it, the imposition of a new order
it can mobilise masses through emotional discourse better than through a rational debate
the rot experiences its own destruction as the highest aesthetic pleasure
it comes with invasive slugs, sosnowsky's hogweed and dreams of leather uniforms
it watches from corners and from within
the blue rot dislikes corrupting critical spirit and intellectual art
infected with the blue rot do as the rot orders
life is the most antifascist thing you can do
Danutė Vaitekūnaitė (b. 1998, Šiauliai, Lithuania) is an artist and educator whose work seeks to reveal invisible systems that exploit human vulnerability. Her worldbuilding practice combines installation, painting, sculpture, writing, design, video, and performance. Revealing the mundane and the overlooked, she focuses on relationships between objects, human and non-human.
Vaitekūnaitė holds an MFA in Art and Media from New York University Abu Dhabi as a Tarek Al Ghoussein Fellow and a BA in Art from La Haute École des Arts du Rhin in Strasbourg. Her work has been exhibited in the UAE, France and Lithuania, including Jameel Arts Center, 421 Arts Campus, NYUAD Art Gallery, La Chaufferie, Syndicat Potentiel, Šiauliai Art Gallery and Pragiedruliai. She collaborated on spoken word, theatre and cinema productions in Tunisia, the UAE and France. Danutė currently works as an educator at Šiauliai Art Gallery.
danute.vaitek@gmail.com
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