NEW SITE-SPECIFIC EXHIBITION BY LINA LAPELYTĖ at The Cosmic House

The Cosmic House launches a new site-specific performative and musical video work by artist and composer Lina Lapelytė. In The Dark, We Play (2025) is composed and performed in collaboration with Nouria Bah, Anat Ben-David, Angharad Davies, Sharon Gal, and Rebecca Horrox, a group of musicians and artists with whom Lapelytė previously created the musical performance piece Candy Shop (2013). Lina Lapelytė is part of the creative team responsible for the opera and indoor beach installation, Sun & Sea (Marina) which won the Golden Lion for the best national pavilion presentation at the 2019 Venice Biennale. 

Lapelytė’s work shifts our perspective to see The Cosmic House, Charles Jencks’ former home and post-modernist manifesto, as a theatrical stage and a collage of musical contraptions. Taking inspiration from the polyphonous ambition of this work, but weaving in new contemporary voices, Lapelytė and her collaborators foreground the mundane and sensory, and invite intimate engagement with the house through their divergent elucidations of the cosmic. The resulting work is an intricate interplay of quotations and a layered dialogue between past and present, the intellectual and the sensory, the cosmic and the human. A series of filmed fragments follow the performers as they ponder, commune, and weave new interpretations of cosmic themes. They playfully inhabit the house, drawing out some details and symbols and sliding past others—like the orbit of a singing comet that comes tantalisingly close before arching far away into mystery.

In partnership with the Lithuanian Culture Institute.

More information: Exhibitions – The Cosmic House

Image: : Lina Lapelytė, conceived in collaboration with Nouria Bah, Anat Ben-David, Angharad Davies, Sharon Gal, Rebecca Horrox, and Martynas Norvaišas, In the Dark, We Play, 2025, video still by Martynas Norvaišas, commissioned by the Jencks Foundation at The Cosmic House