The exhibition in the north wing of Sapieha Palace in Vilnius in centered on the performative installation 'Interviews with the Monster' from 2021 by Czech artist Eva Kot'átková, who represented the Czech Republic in 2024 at the 60th Biennale di Venezia.
Based on documentary material and the artist’s own research about the discussions in a small community about building a home for people with disabilities, 'Interviews with the Monster' examines mechanisms of discrimination and exclusion. The pressures of normativity, and the unfounded, inert fear that arises when confronted with what appears to be different and incomprehensible are creating the real monster. It's not the other but rather an embodiment of learned anxieties and irrational fears.
