IGNAS KRUNGLEVICIUS. VERNISSAGE
— PODIUM. FRIDAY, 27 JANUARY, 2012. 19.00
“The strategic intervention in the field of vision has been organized primarily around the regulation of the relationship between beings, images and language. (…) The claim of legal iconology is that the stakes behind the close link between law and vision are high. Subjectivity is created in the field of vision, to be a self is to be seen. I look from one position but I am looked at from everywhere. The ‘social gaze’ looks back at me from the place of the others and inscribes otherness in the midst of self. It is not the look of any particular other, but the visual, photographic action of otherness which places me within a field of vision as I turn towards others and look at them.
The operation of normative systems (religion, morality, increasingly law) interposes a ‘legalscreen’ between the subject and the social gaze, filtering the objects of vision and determining the way in which we see and are given to the world to be seen. The screen is a collection of authoritative images and material practices which offer a repertory of approved representations through which social identity is inscribed. It determines how each of us is given to the world to be seen, as handsome or ugly, pleasant or nasty, polite or boorish.” — Costas Douzinas
Ignas Krunglevicius studied composition at the Norwegian music academy in Oslo, where he lives and works. In 2010/11, his works were exhibited at Ursula Blickle Stiftung, YoungProjects at Art Platform LA, National gallery of art, Vilnius, Oslo Kunstforening. Krunglevicius was nominated for the “Nam June Paik Award” and received the contemporary art prize “Sparebankstiftelsen DnB NOR”. His works have been performed in various festivals, “Warsaw Autumn” and “Ultima”, Oslo, among others.