Emilija Škarnulytė Splices Chimeric Forms in “The Goddess Helix”
Exploring “adaptation, survival, and myth,” Emilija Škarnulytė’s “The Goddess Helix” opens at Kunsthall Trondheim (NO). Spanning film, sculpture, and holographic imagery, the Lithuanian artist presents three cinematic installations that draw on anthropologist Marija Gimbutas’ research into goddess and serpent motifs in Neolithic art. Æqualia (2023, image), for example, depicts a chimeric mermaid swimming alongside dolphins through the confluence of the Rio Solimões, Rio Negro, and the Amazon River.
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/ Photo: Daniel Vincent Hygstedt Hansen