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Donatas Norušis, Castles in the Sky, Artifex gallery audio, Vilnius, Lithuania, 2025

          Castles in the Sky is an installation that channels seismic vibrations of the exhibition space through a virtual environment composed of deconstructed “risers”—canonic fragments of trance and electronic music that gradually build a sense of tension. As a thin PVC membrane stretched across the gallery ceiling captures sculptural forces of gravity, weight, and material stress, the work forms an architecture of anticipation—one that lingers at the borderline of a moment that never arrives.

          The system, in which silence functions as an unknown condition, continuously drifts through its own fragments rather than settling into quiet. Live vibrations captured by geophones—devices commonly used in early-warning systems—ripple through this state, unfolding as overlapping waves of noise that suspend the system at a perceptual threshold.

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