Dorota Gawęda and Eglė Kulbokaitė, Spit and Image opens at Basement Roma

Spit and Image marks the first solo exhibition in Rome by the artist duo Dorota Gawęda and Eglė Kulbokaitė. They work collaboratively across painting, sculpture, performance, and installation to explore the porous boundaries between the body, technology and the environment. Their practice considers how identity and embodiment are shaped through networks: both digital and ecological and how the spectral, the sensorial and the collective intertwine within these systems. Their practice is rooted in the act of translation between bodies and images, between code and gesture, between the visible and the invisible. “Spit and Image”—writes Yang Beichen in the exhibition text—“while originally signifying ‘perfect likeness,’ is here expanded to suggest a nuanced doubleness— one that creates polyphonic and polyporous dimensions within a seemingly repetitive and mirrored structure. The exhibition space is transformed into an ambiguous zone