Oyster Ears

On 13 December, at 6 pm, the group exhibition Oyster Ears opened at the Editorial Project Space (Latako Str. 3, Vilnius). Yes, you’re right – oysters don’t have ears. It is, as they say in films, a figure of speech. But oysters have something even more special: small tentacles that allow them to ‘hear’ the rhythm of the tides like the breath of the ocean, feel the light, salinity, temperature, and vibrations of the water. Oyster reefs resemble congregations of ears, sensing the world around them with their whole bodies. Couldn’t artworks serve as a kind of artificial oyster? Like seismographs, detecting evolving or future processes. Having no ears but capable of capturing and conveying what the naked eye misses in our detail-packed daily lives. The group exhibition Oyster Ears brings together just such individual ‘organs of hearing’ – works by artists who have held solo or duo shows at Editorial over the last two years. These pieces act as footnotes to past or future exhibitions, fragments of a broader narrative by the artists about the audible or perceptible vibrations of the environment. The exhibition features works by Urtė Janus, Ona Juciūtė, Laura Kaminskaitė, Kamilė Krasauskaitė, Milda Lembertaitė, Liudmila (Milda Januševičiūtė and Miša Skalskis), Daria Melnikova, Paweł Olszewski, Gerda Paliušytė, and Anastasia Sosunova. Exhibition architecture by Laura Kaminskaitė Visual design by Monika Janulevičiūtė Text editing and translation by Alexandra Bondarev The exhibition will run until 11 January 2025. Funded by Vilnius City Municipality. The Editorial Space is open III–V 3–7 pm and VI 12–4 pm.