Augustas Serapinas
Greenhouse from Rannamõisa
2022
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Augustas Serapinas likes to wander along the grassy Lithuanian landscapes reminiscent of the scenery in Heinsaar’s stories and collect unseen stories about everyday lives. These are often about the so-called little people, or at least diligent citizens who are run over by gentrification or other economic processes.
At the last Venice Biennale, for instance, Augustas presented a work consisting of the masonry of the former Ignalina nuclear power plant, which he had asked three local boys to arrange into a new installation. With this and many other projects he manifests his sincere support for his more fragile fellow citizens as well as unexpected creativity.
He has brought to the exhibition a greenhouse left behind by the Rannamõisa summer cottage cooperative in Estonia. Only a sad-looking wreck has remained from the formerly central element of Soviet everyday life. Brought to the gallery and placed on a podium, so to say, it is like a monument to the people who once wove their lives around it.