The Sound That Remains
I am an artist, curator and researcher based in Vilnius, Lithuania. My practice explores the material, ecological and human traces that remain active within territories in transformation. Through photography, listening, walking and curatorial practice, I develop site-responsive forms of artistic research grounded in long-term presence and public engagement.
My work began through video and photography, exploring abandoned industrial and architectural landscapes. Over time, I became increasingly interested in what images alone could not reveal. Rather than replacing photography, I expanded my practice through attentive listening, field recording and collective walks, integrating different forms of observation into a single methodology for understanding place.
Since 2023, my research has evolved through international collaborations, artistic residencies and interdisciplinary projects, developing into an ongoing practice that moves between artistic production, spatial research and public participation. Rather than producing autonomous artworks, I create frameworks that invite new ways of experiencing and understanding territories in transformation.
Alongside my artistic practice, I founded Collective Way, an independent cultural organisation supporting artistic research, site-specific projects and international collaboration. I also direct Spaces in Motion, a platform dedicated to exploring spatial practices through exhibitions, temporary interventions, artistic residencies and public programmes. In 2026, I founded BALA, a permanent site-specific art space in the heart of Vilnius where artists develop works conceived specifically for a single place. Together, these initiatives extend my research beyond individual artistic production, creating collaborative environments where artistic inquiry becomes a shared experience.
Territories in transformation are often perceived as empty once their original function has disappeared. Yet they remain active through material processes, ecological life and human memory. Rather than documenting absence, my practice investigates these persistent traces and asks how artistic research can make them perceptible.
The Sound That Remains is an evolving artistic research practice that investigates territories in transformation through sustained presence and attentive listening. Photography, walking, field recording and long-term observation become complementary forms of inquiry, allowing each territory to reveal relationships that emerge through presence, listening and spatial experience.
The methodology begins not with recording, but with remaining. Through repeated visits, places gradually reveal layers of materiality, ecology and memory. Listening unfolds through geophony (physical processes), biophony (non-human life) and anthropophony (human activity and cultural memory). Together, these forms of attention generate photographs, sound works, installations and collective territorial walks rooted in each site.
The questions behind this practice first emerged during the 2023 LINA residency From Care to Cure, organised by DAI-SAI and curated by Ana Dana Beroš. Since then, the research has evolved through new territories and collaborations, including Spaces in Motion in Lithuania and The Sound That Remains, presented at Forecast Festival 2026 in Berlin.
Rather than proposing a single project, this application presents an artistic research practice that continues to evolve through new territories and collaborations within the LINA network, where each place becomes both the subject and collaborator of the research.