Polyrabbit.Duplicate exhibition “Find the Differences” at the Kintai Arts Residency gallery

A cycle of contemporary art exhibitions continues at the Kintai Arts art residency located in the Curonian Spit region. In Kintai, contemporary artist and curator Vytenis Burokas is currently presenting his work. His exhibition has been extended until August 31 and can be seen in the second‑floor spaces of the Kintai Arts residency.

On June 27, Friday, at 5 PM, the residency gallery will open a joint exhibition by Darius Jaruševičius and Ina Šilina, creating under the fictional persona Polyrabbit.Duplicate, titled “FIND THE DIFFERENCES”. We warmly invite you to the opening—and don’t miss the chance to go up to the second floor to see Vytenis Burokas’s exhibition “Porpourri”! We look forward to seeing you at Kintai Arts, Kuršių g. 30, Kintai.

The creators of Polyrabbit.Duplicate, Darius Jaruševičius and Ina Šilina, pass the authorship of film and painting to an animated character, crafting documentary stories through diverse painting formats. Polyrabbit.Duplicate is the hero of the mockumentary animated series “Polyrabbit.Duplicate,” embodying the modern media consumer who never encounters physically tangible threats from news streams, experiencing and perceiving the outside world through screens. Created over a decade ago, the anachronistic‑in‑form character has become an analog, virtually generated agent by Jaruševičius and Šilina. In Polyrabbit.Duplicate’s painting practice, the relationship between painting and irony—described as creepy figuration—is crucial. Polyrabbit.Duplicate analogously appropriates imagery from animated films, visualises cultural memes, social realities, and ostensibly transforms personal experiences into comic narratives.

In this exhibition, Polyrabbit.Duplicate contributes to the vision of restoring the Baltic Curonian identity of the Klaipėda region. Returning Curonians engage in archaic cottage industries within the contemporary Klaipėda landscape, just as the resurgent Aukštaitian tribe restores the pre‑atomic identity of Visaginas city. On the other hand, these painted works cannot be called illustrations for comics, animated films, or advertisements. Polyrabbit.Duplicate isolates a fairly emblematic illustrative image mediated by painting, unfolding it in a series of prints (kartočiai). The projection of an animated image onto carpet becomes a non‑replicable model intended to be repainted by copying on a very dense, hard‑to‑paint material—the carpet. From this, the ironic Polyrabbit.Duplicate gaze on difference and repetition arises. “Difference and Repetition” is a work of philosopher Gilles Deleuze, proposing the fundamental dissimilarity of prints. “Find the Differences” is a witty paraphrase of the perception of difference and repetition.

Darius Jaruševičius and Ina Šilina are indie animated film creators, actively participating in international film festivals. In 2010 the duo was awarded the Silver Crane. Darius Jaruševičius curates independent site‑specific contemporary painting exhibitions, participates in group shows as a painter experimenting with dense painting matter and exploring its non‑representational dimension. Ina Šilina is a journalist, screenwriter, text author, and educator. Having collaborated for many years with the independent media platform “Nara,” Šilina creates podcasts for LRT on political, historical, and anthropological topics.

Exhibition visits at Kintai Arts gallery: Tue–Fri, 10 AM–6 PM (outside working hours on request by phone +370 612 38 585), Kuršių g. 30, Kintai.

Kintai Arts is supported by the Lithuanian Council for Culture.