Exhibition
Augustas Serapinas holds a solo show at the Arsenal Gallery in Białystok. For his exhibitions Serapinas combines a forge and granary preserved by open-air museums in Podlasie with a decayed home from the Lithuanian countryside into one monumental installation. This work implies an image of shared regional identity while also instigating a compare and contrast between conserved artefacts of heritage and discarded materials of the past. While the artist’s installation alludes to stories of local places, people, memories, and routines, he avoids nostalgic idealisation and instead brings attention to a legacy of pragmatic pre-industrial minimalism and the bare materiality of pine, spruce and aspen wood.
Arsenal Gallery, Białystok, Poland
15 November 2024 – 2 March 2025
