The projects by Indrė Šerpytytė and Visvaldas Morkevičius are part of the Cultura Lituana in Italia 2025–2026 programme, created by the Institute for Lithuanian Culture and the Embassy of the Republic of Lithuania to the Italian Republic.

In our hyper-mediated age, reality increasingly appears as a “spectral” territory; a landscape in which experiences, bodies and events are filtered, translated and recoded through luminous surfaces, screens.
Ghostland explores this intermediate space in which we live – a space where the screen is no longer just a technical device, but a real cultural environment, capable of shaping our perceptions and behaviours, designing collective imaginaries.
The visual technologies that inhabit our daily lives – surveillance systems, social interfaces, digital archives, artificial intelligence and information flows from conflict zones – construct a complex emotional geography, made up of apparent proximities and profound distances. Here, the face becomes a mirror, the body a manipulable surface, memory an archive in constant rewriting, functional to imagining a dystopian future. War, disasters, the alteration of the self and a widespread sense of vulnerability require mediation with the aim of alleviating pain and multiplying spectacle in the face of a world that is sometimes incomprehensible and difficult to decode.

Ghostland offers a reflection on how we observe others and ourselves, how algorithms monitor us, how we construct a sense of danger and trust in a future yet to be built. Through experimental artistic practices, the collective exhibition invites us to recognise the contemporary condition of constant oscillation between presence and absence, between materiality and simulacrum, which characterises our present and our near future. Finally, it is an invitation to reflect not only on what we see but above all on what remains outside the field of vision: the blind spots, the omissions, the spaces where reality continues to elude us or reveals itself only through the frame of the screen.