Emilija Škarnulytė. Photo: © Visvalvas Morkevicius Emilija Škarnulytė
Emilija Škarnulytė is a Lithuanian-born artist and filmmaker. Working across film, sculpture, drawing and immersive installation, she explores deep time and the hidden structures that shape planetary, ecological and political systems. Moving between documentary and the imagined, her work traces sites where ancient myth intersects with the future. Her films often take the perspective of a future archaeologist, entering decommissioned nuclear power plants, deep-sea data storage facilities, underwater cities, and remote geological formations.
Key works include Burial (2016), a film shot inside a former nuclear missile base, Aphotic Zone (2017), a cinematic descent into underwater communication and military infrastructures, and Sirenomelia (2018), a mythic film driven by marine extinction and submerged imaginaries. More recent projects – such as Æqualia (2023), filmed at the meeting of the Amazon’s dark and milky waters, and Hypoxia (2023), a film installation about oxygen-depleted ocean zones – extend her engagement with planetary metabolism and ecological collapse. Škarnulytė’s work has been presented internationally, including at Tate St Ives.
Exhibitions
Exhibition: Between Fires – Irradiated Imaginations & Anti-Nuclear Solidarities
Curated by Fabienne Rachmadiev, the exhibition traces the intertwined histories of nuclear infrastructures, colonialism and resistance, presented in collaboration with Sonic Acts
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