28 minutes from home

28 minutes from home marks a complete circular journey, during which a map of place and memory subtly intertwines. This exhibition presents fragments of the artistic research “Facets of Death: Between Fear and Fascination”, distilled through time, memory, and environment. Here, a map, texts, and drawings meet physical and mental markers tracing a personal geography of experience.

“I have always thought about death. Only the fear of it, as the realisation of fear, came much later, not when I was a child, clinging to the sheets, worried that my parents would die while I slept. But when my mother bought a book and gave it to my sister, who was studying psychology, Irvin D. Yalom’s book “Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death”. Then I grabbed it and read it, and I didn’t overcome the fear, I grew it. I grew it by realising that I had always been afraid of it and I identified with the characters, or rather the patients, in the book, “

Stories about real or fictional events from personal life.
Memories of childhood and adolescence. The environment I grew up in.
Did it affect my fears?

I live in between a hospital and a cemetery. There is a nursing home for the elderly in the neighbourhood. There I have seen old people lying in beds and losing their strength. In my childhood memories, I have visited funerals, open caskets and the faces of the deceased. It all blends into one. I started keeping a diary of memories. Searching for the key to my fear in the subconscious. I discover the core stories that are buried in the texts. In them I look for a relationship with death and try to understand where the inner anxiety comes from. 

Karolina Latvytė-Bibiano (b. 1991) is an artist living and working in Kaunas. In 2023, she completed her MA in Sculpture at the Vilnius Academy of Arts. She is a member of the Lithuanian Interdisciplinary Artists’ Association and an ambassador for the mental health programme “Žvelk giliau”.

Karolina’s artistic practice explores the landscapes of anxiety, fear, vulnerability, and intimate memory. Through text, video, and drawing, she creates spaces of emotional archaeology – deeply personal, yet quietly familiar. Biographical fragments intertwine with fictional narratives; soft aesthetics merge with unease, as if to gently remind us of the inner tension between knowing and unknowing, closeness and loss. Her gaze often turns to states of fear, anxiety, and inner sensitivity not in an effort to overcome them, but to understand them. The works become a way to attentively observe the inner world, to touch the subconscious, and to open a space for the viewer to sense, recognise, and connect.

Organized by: VšĮ “Verpėjos”
Financed by: Lithuanian Council for Culture and Varėna Municipality
Opening event: July 19, 3:00 PM
Exhibition dates: July 19 – August 10, 2025
Visiting hours: Saturdays and Sundays, 12:00–5:00 PM,
or by prior arrangement at +370 614 16255.
Address: Marcinkonys Station Gallery, Kastinio St. 1C
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