Lina Albrikiene
Neither Mouse Neither Human
- Opening: 25 July 19:00
The starting point of Lina Albrikiene's work "Neither Mouse Neither Human" is the insight into a reality she encountered during her residency in Graz, when she lived in a Catholic monastery.
What can someone who does not belong to any religion imagine by the "devoted faith of the Catholics"? In order to access this phenomenon, which was foreign to her, Lina recalled an ideology that she truly believed in as a child. Lina's childhood took place during the extremely uncertain years in Lithuania. As a child, she witnessed the fall of the USSR and the emergence of a once again independent state, which immediately took a pro-Western direction. During those years, Mickey Mouse was almost something of a symbolic guardian angel for post-Soviet children - promising radiant happiness, in contrast to the mostly sad, gloomy and frightening characters that dominated Soviet animated films and children's books.
So what happens when a Mickey Mouse as the savior of the "post-Soviet child" encounters the persistent Catholic faith in Austria as well as the traces of long-ago Nazi propaganda? Lina Albrikiene's work is an exploration of this rather bizarre clash, which ran through various social contexts and was reflected in personal experiences and feelings.
- Opening: 25 July 19:00
The starting point of Lina Albrikiene's work "Neither Mouse Neither Human" is the insight into a reality she encountered during her residency in Graz, when she lived in a Catholic monastery.
What can someone who does not belong to any religion imagine by the "devoted faith of the Catholics"? In order to access this phenomenon, which was foreign to her, Lina recalled an ideology that she truly believed in as a child. Lina's childhood took place during the extremely uncertain years in Lithuania. As a child, she witnessed the fall of the USSR and the emergence of a once again independent state, which immediately took a pro-Western direction. During those years, Mickey Mouse was almost something of a symbolic guardian angel for post-Soviet children - promising radiant happiness, in contrast to the mostly sad, gloomy and frightening characters that dominated Soviet animated films and children's books.
So what happens when a Mickey Mouse as the savior of the "post-Soviet child" encounters the persistent Catholic faith in Austria as well as the traces of long-ago Nazi propaganda? Lina Albrikiene's work is an exploration of this rather bizarre clash, which ran through various social contexts and was reflected in personal experiences and feelings.
