Augustas Serapinas

Augustas Serapinas (b. 1990, Vilnius, Lithuania) lives and works in Vilnius, Lithuania. Serapinas's practice is invested in recomposing public spaces in order to foreground and problematise the assumptions that shape them. Researching specifically each site his work appears in, he uncovers hidden dynamics of social hierarchy, economy and memory that decide on how institutions function, how people interact, who they pay attention to and which objects are passed unacknowledged. He strategises and weaponises the physical existence of secrets and access to spaces, uncovered through researching the history of materials, their usage and traditions. By inverting the customary functions of objects and spatiality, Serapinas toys with the possibilities of our encounters with space: pragmatic, emotional, cultural and local. ...

Emalin is a London-based contemporary art gallery run by Angelina Volk and Leopold Thun. Prior to opening the permanent gallery space in London’s East End in September 2016, Emalin operated as an itinerant exhibition programme and project space since 2014. The gallery represents nine international artists from five countries working in a range of media, with a focus on emerging multi-disciplinary practices.