Emilija Skarnulyte

Emilija Škarnulytė is a nomadic visual artist and filmmaker based in Tromsø. Between the fictive and documentary, she works primarily with deep time, from the cosmic and geologic to the ecological (...) and political. Her blind grandmother gently touches the weathered statue of a Soviet dictator, neutrino detectors and particular colliders spark to life, and post-human species swim through submarine tunnels above the Arctic Circle and crawl through tectonic fault lines in the Middle Eastern desert. Recent group exhibitions include Hyperobjects at Ballroom Marfa, Texas; Moving Stones at the Kadist Art Foundation, Paris; and the first Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art; as well as a new commission for Bold Tendencies, London and a solo show at Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin. Screenings at BISFF, Busan Short Film Festival, South Korea (2018); International Film Festival Rotterdam (2015); Artists’ Film International – Season 7, Whitechapel Gallery, London (2015) and International Short Film Festival OBERHAUSEN, International Competition (2013). She was recently shortlisted for the Future Generation Art Prize 2019. Škarnulytė has an upcoming shows and screenings: Toronto Biennial of Art, Toronto, Canada; On Earth, Structure and Sadness, Serpentine Galleries, UK; 95% of the Universe is Missing, Science Gallery, London, UK. She currently co-directs Polar Film Lab, a collective for 16mm analogue film practice located in Tromsø, Norway.