tight grip, it makes
me feel safe is an immersive moving
image installation that drifts between reality and fiction; acting as an
archive of the collective post-Soviet queer experience, it encapsulates the power of
desire, rage and hope. The project was developed and captured as an intimate
performance set in a liminal place reflecting the broken-down present.
The nameless
characters of the film are engaged in ritualistic acts of constriction,
writhing through the dense air while binding themselves and each other.
Exhibiting monstrous traits that mark them as Other, they operate unaware of a
viral entity that is continuously dominating their shifting environment. A soft
voice carries through the film, narrating fragmented memories, emotions and dreams.
Repressed subconscious desires become an internal force that carries the
potential to break the veneer of a constructed truth.
HD video installation with sound, 21 min.
Commissioned by JCDecaux & Contemporary Art Centre as part of the exhibition “Spaces”
*winner of JCDecaux Award 2021
tight grip, it makes me feel safe, video still
tight grip, it makes me feel safe, video still
tight grip, it makes me feel safe, video still
tight grip, it makes me feel safe, installation at Lithuanian Composers' Union as part of the JCDecaux Award 2021
tight grip, it makes me feel safe, installation at Lithuanian Composers' Union as part of the JCDecaux Award 2021
tight grip, it makes me feel safe, video still
tight grip, it makes me feel safe, video still
