International art exhibition "Echo Archives"

On Friday, July 3, at 6 p.m., the international art exhibition "Echo Archives / Aidų registras" opens at the Pamėnkalnio galerija. During the opening, at 6:30 p.m., Agnė Auželytė will perform "Drebulės dainos".

Exhibition artists: Aistė Ambrazevičiūtė, Akvilė Anglickaitė, Agnė Auželytė, Weronika Bela & Ivar Hagren, Aurora Del Rio, Meri Hietala, Mantas Valentukonis, Hanna Wildow.

The "Echo Archives" project has brought together artists from three countries who explore in their work the structures of ecological memory, inherited knowledge about the natural environment, and the fragile connections between people, landscapes, and histories. The exhibition begins with a simple question: how do we learn to care for the world around us? Stories passed down in kitchens, songs traveling from generation to generation, seasonal rituals, and daily actions have long helped preserve knowledge about life in and with nature. This knowledge was acquired not through formal education, but through experience. However, today it is increasingly threatened by an economy based on resource exploitation, the loss of ecosystems, and the accelerating pace of modern life.

Traveling through the exhibition, visitors will encounter landscapes that hide many, often contradictory, stories. Seas, rivers, forests, and territories reveal themselves here as living archives, preserving the memory of care and conflict, belonging and exclusion, preservation and exploitation. The artists reflect on the changing connections between the Baltic and Black Seas, polluted water bodies, traces of industrial pollution, and ancient oral traditions, revealing how fragile our concepts of distance, safety, and stability can be. Voices, breath, and the natural environment intertwine, inviting us to perceive listening as an ecological and political act. Together, the works raise the question of how future generations will remember the traces we leave behind – from visible landscape changes to dangers lurking deep underground.

The exhibition proposes to perceive ecological memory not as a nostalgic return to the past, but as an active practice of remembering, listening, and caring. It invites us to rethink what we choose to preserve and what we allow to disappear. As ecologist and writer Robin Wall Kimmerer reminds us, "all flourishing is mutual." The future is shaped by restoring fragile connections between communities, territories, and the more-than-human world in which we live together.

"Echo Archives" is an attempt to listen to these echoes that have not yet faded: the flow of water, the rustling of wind in the trees, the voice of a bird, a disappearing story, or a landscape that continues to remember even when we have already forgotten.

Exhibition organizer: Pamėnkalnio galerija.

Exhibition curator: Julija Pociūtė.

Co-curators: Ramiro Camelo, Alba Folgado.