The Elba Benitez Gallery is pleased to present Prince, an exhibition by Gintaras Didžiapetris, guest curated by Ricardo Nicolau, deputy director of the Serralves Museum.

Prince (which draws its title and central mofit from Machiaveli's treatise II Principe) consists of works in various media that together give rise to a subtle examination of the process of becoming, which inevitably, involves becoming something else: a prince becomes a king, a text becomes a guide to power, a lanscape becomes a film, the past becomes the future, time becomes history. Even objects themselves, which can appear to have achieved a fixed state, are in fact in a constant flux of time: according to Didžiapetris, "the past is never over and touches us 'from both ends' - on one hand as something kept, half-lost, half-known, and on the other as something that is part of current events, politics, logistics..."

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