Liudas Andrikis is an interdisciplinary artist, curator and initiator of cultural processes. His work combines photography, performance, experimental cinema, installations and creative activism. Since the early 2000s, he has been actively involved in the field of contemporary art in Lithuania and abroad, and in Klaipėda he initiates bold cultural phenomena and gathers a creative community. Andrikis's works are characterized by social sensitivity, echoes of mythology and constant de(construction) of reality through art.
Installation-experiment "What's Inside?"
“What’s Inside?” is an installation-laboratory, an interdisciplinary artistic experiment in which the author raises social questions through activism, ambiguities, absurd aesthetics, and consciously provocative solutions. Liudas Andrikis, who combines ready-made objects, sound, image, information technologies, and everyday contexts in his work, reflects on the refugee crisis, the reality of homelessness, and the superficiality of the modern world with this work.
At the center of the installation is the cheapest possible tent, with a bright appearance, left in a public space. It becomes like a provocative social mirror: attractive on the outside, like a social media profile, and emptiness on the inside. The creator consciously does not take it upon himself to protect it - if the tent is taken by the one who needs it most, it will give meaning to one of the essential layers of the work: the rare opportunity to have at least a temporary roof over one's head.
The viewer is invited to confront the very question – what's inside? Curiosity encourages us to come closer, and at the same time – it scares us: do we really want to encounter an unknown person, perhaps – someone whom our consciousness often avoids? The inscription on the tent, like a mirror, reflects this internal dialogue: “What's inside him?” – and at the same time asks the viewer a question – “What's inside you?”
This work is not just about others. It is about all of us.
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