Eglė Budvytytė's Video Works Challenge Social Norms at Rome Exhibition

Eglė Budvytytė (Kaunas, 1981) presents a series of video works in Rome that explore how communication technologies transmit alternative realities. Her videos, including 'Shaking Children' and 'As if You Are Catching a Bomb,' depict bodies in short-circuit, disrupting the congruence between material, moral, and temporal dimensions. Ordinary behaviors are systematically eroded and transformed through imagination, giving rise to secret societies like 'Secta' and believable 'Magicians.' The exhibition, reviewed by Raffaele Orlando, highlights Budvytytė's ability to reshape reality into different visions, with the metropolitan imaginary becoming a mental territory where incomprehensible actions infiltrate standard social configurations.