Deimantas Narkevičius
Deimantas Narkevičius
Deimantas Narkevičius (Utena, Lithuania, 1964) is an artist based in Vilnius. He started using film during the early nineties. His films exercise the intricate practice of memory and portray a contemporary society confronted with the painful processes of history. The camera offered him the possibility of exploring different narratives, allowing him to play with the course of time. In film he found a perfect medium for exploring both sound and visual language. The disjunctions between words and images in Narkevičius’s films make manifest the impossibility of an objective documentary. He eschews the close-ups that are a common feature of contemporary documentaries, used to demonstrate the veracity of an interviewee’s testimony. The central characters of Narkevičius’s narratives are often absent from the screen, replaced by objects, drawings and other surrogates.
Narkevičius has presented solo shows at the National Gallery of Art, Vilnius, the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Corner House, Riga, Southbank Gallery, London, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, and the Vienna Secession, as well as exhibiting in the Lithuanian Pavilion at the 49th Venice Biennial. Notable group shows include the Manifesta 10, Saint Petersburg, the 29th São Paulo Biennial, the 11th Istanbul Biennial and Skulptur Projekte Münster 07.