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On 13 December, at 6 pm, the group exhibition Oyster Ears opened at the Editorial Project Space (Latako Str. 3, Vilnius).
Yes, you’re right – oysters don’t have ears. It is, as they say in films, a figure of speech. But oysters have something even more special: small tentacles that allow them to ‘hear’ the rhythm of the tides like the breath of the ocean, feel the light, salinity, temperature, and vibrations of the water. Oyster reefs resemble congregations of ears, sensing the world around them with their whole bodies. Couldn’t artworks serve as a kind of artificial oyster? Like seismographs, detecting evolving or future processes. Having no ears but capable of capturing and conveying what the naked eye misses in our detail-packed daily lives.
The group exhibition Oyster Ears brings together just such individual ‘organs of hearing’ – works by artists who have held solo or duo shows at Editorial over the last two years. These pieces act as footnotes to past or future...More
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On 13 December, at 6 pm, the group exhibition Oyster Ears opened at the Editorial Project Space (Latako Str. 3, Vilnius).
Yes, you’re right – oysters don’t have ears. It is, as they say in films, a figure of speech. But oysters have something even more special: small tentacles that allow them to ‘hear’ the rhythm of the tides like the breath of the ocean, feel the light, salinity, temperature, and vibrations of the water. Oyster reefs resemble congregations of ears, sensing the world around them with their whole bodies. Couldn’t artworks serve as a kind of artificial oyster? Like seismographs, detecting evolving or future processes. Having no ears but capable of capturing and conveying what the naked eye misses in our detail-packed daily lives.
The group exhibition Oyster Ears brings together just such individual ‘organs of hearing’ – works by artists who have held solo or duo shows at Editorial over the last two years. These pieces act as footnotes to past or future...More
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