Ieva Kotryna Ski, Preila Project, 2022
  • Residency period: Autumn 2023/2024
  • Neringa Municipality Scholarship

The heat peaks after late breakfast. We’d better stay by the lagoon and head to the seaside later. Let’s nap or go to the local store to buy ice cream. So we do, and as we walk past the houses we know so well, we remember that years ago there was a mystery, an unexpected finding … wasn’t it some treasure in the lagoon? We stop and think. There were police and caution tape, it wasn’t a murder scene. Everyone was saying that they had found the lost amber room. This went on for months and the vacationers kept the intrigue alive. Then one day – suddenly – everything disappeared, just as it had started. And all the officers, journalists, workers and curious passers-by left without finding anything. 

The idea of treasure in a seaside town excites the imagination.


Ieva Kotryna Ski is an artist based in Paris. Her practice includes working with documentary film forms, text and audiovisual installations.

Ignė Narbutaitė is a video maker, film and video editor based in Vilnius. As an editor she works on feature films, documentaries, artist videos, music videos and TV documentaries.

Ieva Kotryna Ski & Ignė Narbutaitė, Preila Project, 2022
Ieva Kotryna Ski & Ignė Narbutaitė, Preila Project, 2022
Ignė Narbutaitė, Preila Project, 2022
Ieva Kotryna Ski & Ignė Narbutaitė, Preila Project, 2022
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