she’s waiting for the sunset is a looped, multi-screen video work and architectural installation about the artist Martyna Ratnik’s great grandmother. Through the different elements of her project, she narrates absence and displaces the centre-periphery of historical discourse, trivialising politics in ways that reveal its absurdity. The love and life story of Ratnik’s Babushka is distilled into a short three-channel 16 mm film, transforming a family archive into a grand narrative that captures the forms of oppression under Soviet ideology. The piece blends with the conditions of its surroundings – projected on the windows of a modernist landmark building and visible both in and outdoors. The building is lit chromatically in accordance with the film, with the written elements of the installation displayed like closed-captioned subtitles for television, narrating the activities and movements taking place inside.

Part of Re-Imagine Europe – New Perspectives for Action. Co-funded by the European Union.
Premiere: Rupert, 2024 (LT)
This work is available for touring.
Further enquiries: info@rupert.lt