ANTON KARYUK

The project is based on unique information from a list created and curated by the users of the Facebook page Gay Cruising Lithuania. Active from 2016 to 2018, this page became a kind of archive of hidden meeting spaces across the country. Community members developed interactive maps with special markers and detailed instructions for locating these sites. Some of these spaces now exist only in memory, while others remain active, particularly in the summer along the Baltic Sea coast and in major cities.

For this project, the artist selected ten of the most frequently mentioned maps posted on this page. Using acrylic paint in an abstract style, he both conceals and reveals the content of these spaces. Through this mapping approach, he continues to explore Lithuania’s queer history, archiving the maps as visual codes and sources of information.