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3/64/65/66/6Conspiratorial Status of Iodine (2022)
Installation, metal and print
Design Academy Eindhoven, master’s course.
Years of imposed Iodine deficiency and the fear of nuclear power plant emergencies have made Iodine a household name in Post-Soviet Lithuania. Yet, the element’s simple, cold, plain, and factual nature results in a strange, conspiracy-like obsession, larger than the individual pieces of information and more mysterious than the political, economic, and environmental struggles it stems from. In the installation, a series of found footage, scientific measurements, aerial images, and perfect placeholders aim to tell the intertwined and contradicting web of stories surrounding Iodine. Through an attempt to be read, the simple blocks form an ambiguous narrative, as we continue to search for an organized evil by simplifying complex realities.