The exhibition opening party ‘Soft landing’ will take place on Friday 11 September from 21.00 at Draugų vardai (Konstitucijos pr. 12, Vilnius).
‘Familiar Stranger’ presents works by international artists Zuza Banasińska, Loora Kaubi, Sarah Neumann, and Milda Januševičiūtė, which reflect on memory as an unstable process that continuously reshapes personal and collective identities. The exhibition intertwines family histories, inherited imagery, bodily memory, and digital archives. The past reaches us in fragments: a story repeated by relatives, an image whose details no longer align, an inherited gesture, or a file stored somewhere in the cloud. Rather than a static archive, memory here is a constant negotiation between what is remembered, forgotten, replaced, and passed down. The exhibition reveals the shift between bodily and externalised memory. What was once preserved in stories, objects, and bodies increasingly exists on corporate servers, accessible through passwords and infrastructures we can barely see. Forgetting may be a fundamental condition of human existence; data storage has turned it into a service. Instead of treating memory as reliable testimony, ‘Familiar Stranger’ reflects on how remembrance is shaped by repetition, silences, technology, and the contemporary standpoint from which we look back. The familiar can return slightly altered; a stranger’s memory can seamlessly become one’s own; an inherited story can feel simultaneously intimate and strangely alien. The exhibition does not seek to reconstruct an original, pristine past. Instead, it considers how to live with what remains, what has been rewritten, and what we choose to remember—or allow external systems to remember for us.
‘Familiar Stranger’
Artists: Zuza Banasińska, Loora Kaubi, Sarah Neumann, Milda Januševičiūtė
Curator – Milda Januševičiūtė
Architect – Ona Juciūtė
Designer – Monika Janulevičiūtė
The exhibition is funded by the Lithuanian Council for Culture.
Opening hours:
Fri 6–8 pm, Sat 12–4 pm, Sun 12–4 pm.
Admission is free.
The nearest public transport stop is Dailės akademija (buses 10, 33, 89). The nearest parking is at Latako St. 2.
The gallery is located on the ground floor. The main entrance door has a threshold, and there is one step at the entrance to the gallery.
The gallery is pet-friendly and welcomes guide dogs.
Restrooms are located on the ground floor. There is no accessible toilet or mother-and-child room.
Latako St. 3, Vilnius.