Gerda Paliušyte (b. 1987) is a Vilnius-based artist and curator. Paliušyte’s work is concerned with tacit agreements, the desire to connect, and the temporality of collectivity. Her films tend to engage with a range of cultural agents, including historical and popular characters, focusing on the ways they modify the cultural landscape of specific places. Most of her work makes use of various documentary practices, including docu-fiction. Some examples of Paliušytė’s films include “The Road Movie”, a story about the band’s “ONYX” stay in Vilnius (2015), “Desire For Things To Work”, depicting a night journey in Amsterdam voiced by telephone sex workers (2016), and “Nevermore”, a documentary about the legend of American writer Edgar Alan Poe in Baltimore (2020). Since 2018 Paliušyte has belonged to the artist collective Montos Tattoo.
In her works, Paliušytė explores cultural history and contradictions found within it. She is interested in various documentary practices (such as docufiction), diverse historical and pop culture characters, and their relationship with social reality.
