Emilija Škarnulytė – Arrow of Time

Emilija Škarnulytė transforms the Lokremise into an immersive, otherworldly landscape using film, light, and sculpture. About Emilija Škarnulytė transforms the Lokremise into an immersive, otherworldly landscape using film, light, and sculpture. The exhibition creates an experiential space in which science, fiction, and art intertwine against a vast cosmic backdrop, locating viewers somewhere between the technological present and a future that appears both promising and unsettling. Emilija Škarnulytė turns her attention to places where technological utopias, political histories, and planetary timescales overlap. A central point of reference for the exhibition, one of the locations where Škarnulytė filmed, is the decommissioned Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant in Lithuania, a sister plant to Chernobyl. In its abandoned control room, a python glides across the buttons and switches of the control panel—an image of haunting beauty in which nature, technology, and the afterlife of the nuclear age converge. The work leads viewers into a world where the human being is no longer centred but seen instead as only a small part of a much larger cosmic and geological system. The installation asks questions about radioactivity, control, technological promises, and the long-term traces of human intervention on Earth. In doing so, it does not formulate a clear vision of the future. Rather, it maintains a state of suspension, remaining open to wonder and fear, confidence and the loss of control, and dreams as well as precise diagnoses of the present. Read more Toggle Installation Sculpture Film / Video