Topography

Topography of Being on the Margins is an installation born from my experience of displacement and uprooting. At the age of nine, I left Lithuania a landscape of dense, silent nature to settle in France. This rupture profoundly shaped my relationship with the world: observing became a way to understand, to find my place without ever fully occupying the center. The installation brings together photography, ceramics, and sculpture within a modular metal structure made of industrial pipes, evoking both urban space and the idea of a fragile shelter, a home one tries to reconstruct. The photograph, printed on aluminum and suspended, functions as a fragment of a personal diary, seeking to introduce silence into the city’s chaos.

The stoneware amphora, inspired by archaeological artifacts, condenses the sensations of a moving body: vibrations, perceptions, and impressions accumulated while walking. It becomes a symbol of intimate heritage, an object one could leave behind. The sculpture, made of hand-shaped stoneware rings connected by metal chains, conveys the tension between connection and rupture, attachment and instability.

Together, the elements form a “topography of being on the margins”: a subjective map of the experience of being a foreigner, inhabiting thresholds and interstices, maintaining a constant posture of observation. The installation is a sensitive, personal archaeology where material, memory, and fragmented identity converge.