In the exhibition Cool Surface, Tomas Sinkevičius and Viltė Bražiūnaitė explore the practice of geological carbon dioxide storage and the physical, visual, and political traces of this invisible infrastructure. The exhibition takes as its point of departure carbon dioxide injected into the depths of the North Sea in the 2000s – intangible, like a scent preserved in memory: Light Blue, Euphoria, Rush.
The artist duo observes the CO₂ storage infrastructure spreading across Europe's energy sector – from the capture of carbon dioxide as an industrial byproduct and its temporary storage in cryogenic tanks to its final injection into underground geological formations. In the works presented, the artists seek to transform processes invisible to the naked eye into tangible and perceptible material. Here, technologies and scientific data are not neutral tools – they shape our understanding of the underground, risk, and the reliability of technological solutions.
About the artists:
Viltė Bražiūnaitė and Tomas Sinkevičius have been working together since 2014. Artist duo make work on the interlinked subjects of late capitalist consumption and climate anxiety in a world full of planetary shifts. Whether through films, photographs, sculpture and installations, Bražiūnaitė and Sinkevičius show how deeply, and irrevocably, our dependence on and manipulation of life-forms have altered planetary life today.
Credits: After Bernd and Hilla Becher’s Industrial Landscapes. 3D visualisations, 2026
Graphic design: Ugnė Balčiūnaitė
Kintai Arts is funded by Lithuanian Council for Culture
