LITHUANIA

A multi-channel film installation shot on 16mm translates an archaeological inquiry into song, movement, and altered states of perception. Drawing inspiration from the studies of Lithuanian anthropologist and archaeologist Marija Gimbutas on Neolithic matrilineal and animist societies, Budvytytė weaves together artefacts, landscape, and the body through choreographic sequences set between museum spaces and the coastal caves of Southern Italy, continuing a practice grounded at the intersection of visual and performing arts. Votive figurines and ritual gestures form a kind of animist prayer that re-enables connections between archaeological memory, the environment, and collective forms of embodied experience.

Featured image: ©Eglė Budvytytė, 2026