Video instalation Ydile_
There was no other way. Two forces meet in the work: human and natural. They act as hostile energies to each other, but together - one gives power to the other to spread, the law of coexistence becomes apparent. Moving images reveal a layer about the permanent, mechanical furnishing of the planet by human hands and the adaptation of such (re)formed terrain to one's own needs. The motif of the mountains that keep appearing on the screen are terricones of Phosphogypsum waste piled up in the Kedainiai area. It tells about the current situation of a specific place and about the uncertainty about the future.
Ydile is a romanticized toxic landscape that appears in the work and carries the ambiguous meaning of an (important) landscape.
The meaning of the word "idyllic" is used, which reminds us of a calm, carefree life, imbued with a touch of nostalgia, but there is also the weight of imperfection nearby, which offsets a certain lack, damage, of the idyllic landscape.
This work is a three-channel video installation composed of filmed footage and digital collage. The work unfolds across three television screens, where fragmented landscapes and constructed visuals shift in a slow, looping rhythm. The moving images echo the tension between natural forces and human interference, revealing a layered narrative of terrain altered, displaced, and reimagined.
The visual language is built from real footage—waste mountains, industrial residue, modified ground—and rearranged into a poetic, unsettling flow. Each screen becomes part of a synthetic panorama that feels both distant and familiar, romantic and toxic. Ydile reflects on the illusion of harmony, where the idyllic is haunted by absence, and beauty is inseparable from destruction.
The instalation was selected and took part in Vilnius Painting Triennial. Gabrielė Monginaitė was also among nominees for the Young Artists Award 2024.