From 23 January 2022, an installation by the world-renowned artist Yoko Ono, Ex It, will be on display in the main operations room of the Kaunas branch of the Bank of Lithuania, a famous example of interwar Kaunas architecture. The installation consists of 100 wooden coffins of different sizes with fruit trees growing out of them and a sound recording of living nature. It is a powerful image of the aftermath of war or natural disaster, a metaphor for the resilience of life and the vitality of nature. As the artist herself says, “Ex It is life as a continuation”
This installation is the precursor to Yoko Ono’s major retrospective, which will be presented at Kaunas Picture Gallery in September this year. The exhibition, titled >>>