Banners with yellow and blue ‘Centre of Attraction’ targets hanging over the street and on advertising stands clearly show that one such zone is currently active in Vilnius: you can learn about it anywhere in the city. Valdas Ozarinskas’s and Aida Čeponytė’s concept is that even space aliens could easily find the exhibition, because the CAC and printing house buildings are marked with indicators for spacecraft like those used by crews to determine their location in outer space. The flashing objects reminiscent of satellite dishes are especially visible at night. The box with round hatches at the entrance to the Contemporary Art Centre draws associations with some kind of space capsule. Inside, a monitor shows spacecraft docking. Ozarinskas and Čeponytė boldly chose a cosmic scale for this centre of attraction, where economic and political factors are replaced by the force of gravity and technological characteristics.

– Laima Kreivytė, ‘Kultūros imperializmas kultūros dykvietėje’, Verslo žinios, 23 September 2002.

Artists: Aida Čeponytė, Valdas Ozarinskas

Exhibited in Centre of Attraction, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, 2002

Drawings: Valdas Ozarinskas Foundation Archive

Photographs: CAC Archive

Other Sources:

Lolita Jablonskienė, ‘Ar užburia naujovės?’, Šiaurės Atėnai, 20 November 2002.

Austėja Čepauskaitė, ‘Traukos centras: 8-oji Baltijos tarptautinio meno trienalė Šiuolaikinio meno centre’, 7 meno dienos, 20 September 2002. https://www.7md.lt/archyvas.php?leid_id=535.

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