Event Horizon Black Hole

CAC – Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius

A vast L-shaped wall erected in the middle of the gallery acts as the projection screen of Event Horizon Black Hole (2002-ongoing). The images of the crumbling architecture of the UNESCO headquarters in Paris play back-to-back with images of an avalanche on Mt. Cook (a UNESCO-protected area) in New Zealand. Presented in a mirror format, each video resembles an enormous, constantly morphing Rorschach blot. The sound track is a recording of ambient sounds from Tongariro National Park (also a UNESCO-protected area) in New Zealand mixed with the sounds of the flapping flags, recorded outside the United Nations Headquarters in New York. The question “Where are we?” seems to defy any single answer.