Pakui Hardware
Lithuania
lives and works in Berlin, Germany and Vilnius, Lithuania
Pakui Hardware is the name of the artist duo, consisting of the two artists Neringa Cerniauskaite (*1984, Lithuania) and Ugnius Gelguda (*1978, Lithuania), which exists since 2014 and whose name refers to a goddess from Hawaiian mythology. One of Pakui Hardware’s preferred subjects is regenerative medicine and its technologies. They place the human body in a virtual relation to non-human discourses, be it animals or plants, and also technological discourses, somewhere between science fiction and mythology. At the Biennale Gherdëina 7, the two artists present three works entitled Thrivers, a series of figures that fuse human limbs with various bodies of extremophiles. These are representations of unicellular organisms that thrive under extreme and hostile environmental conditions such as extreme cold, heat, acidity or radiation. As such they bring us messages regarding future scenarios. Additionally, they will present a new work especially made for the Biennale Gherdëina 7, entitled Antidote, three wooden sculptures based upon the artists’ signature language of an organic and biomorphic form. By combining natural and artificial material, sterile and organic forms, the artists transform design, biology and art history into hybrid and weird creatures.
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