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BRUT_LIST | ODE TO THE EASTERN EUROPEAN BLOCKS

BRUT(a)LIST | ODE TO THE EASTERN EUROPEAN BLOCKHOUSES is concrete jewelry collection inspired by socialist architecture or otherwise the architecture of the sleeping areas of Eastern Europe. In these days, when we are facing quarantines, our individuality and commonality concept became more and more relevant. This collection is about us, about our home.
Living in concrete apartment buildings, it is as if we cannot escape from the community, because the apartment building itself creates it as inevitability. We are included in the social bubble, even if we do not want to. Isolate in the crowd. We think we are exceptional, but isn’t that just an illusion of the individuality of our community and society as a whole? We cannot escape communities, even in isolation.
Lithuanian artist Gerda Liudvinavičiūtė - CELSIUS 273 concrete jewelry collection BRUT_LIST | ODE TO THE EASTERN EUROPEAN BLOCKS, which are home to the majority of the population of Eastern Europe. It is our home that shapes us more than we can imagine. Every window, every apartment, it is a separate world. When merge, they turn into a building, district, city, or, in this case, jewelry. Living in concrete blockhouses, we can feel isolated in our apartments, but we really live in a community - in buildings where a few centimeters between the walls seperate us. This collection asks what our homes are and do we know them well? How similar or different we can be by living in the same square meters of concrete apartment buildings - from Vilnius to Riga, Tallinn, Moscow or Minsk?
This collection is a grotesque story about our homes and ourselves. About the loneliness in the crowd, the relentless, involuntary desire to belong, about the differences and our similarities. BRUT_LIST ODE TO THE EASTERN EUROPEAN BLOCKS seems to be creating a space where we choose to be (?), Although we don't always recognize that.
The collection echoes the motifs of apartment buildings that blend in apocalypse scenarium with the person and change us. An apartment building in Eastern Europe is an iconic symbol of quarantine that can name our states, aspirations, and fears. and at the same time protect us from ourselves.

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