Emanate

2021
Milda Dainovskytė
Jeronimas Mantvydas Seibutis

Communication visuals for exhibition

Using glass, ceramics, wood and paper, the naturalist Václav Frič (1839-1916) modelled volumetric visualisations of natural science discoveries from the second half of the 19th century. Folded out of paper and encased in fragile glass plates, the crystal models are reminiscent of ritualistic objects, paradoxically naïve ceremonial cannons constructed to represent the development of nature and history. They are kept at the Geological Museum of the Institute of Geosciences of Vilnius University ChGF, where they have served as educational tools for decades.

Emanate is a set of tools in which these polyhedra, having lost their precision of form and become artefacts of geoscience, are displayed beside earthen sensory smell containers. Smells and their experience here represent an intermediate state, involving us in an ambivalent encounter between primordial origins and discoveries yet to come.