On November 6, 2026, at 18:00, the Lithuanian Library of Medicine will host the presentation of O47.0, an exhibition and installation by Gertr\u016bda Navidauskien\u0117.<\/p>\n
The exhibition O47.0<\/strong> by artist and art therapist Gertr\u016bda Navidauskien\u0117 explores premature motherhood as an in-between state \u2013 a time and space between birth and returning home, between a woman\u2019s identity and her identity as a mother, and between life and the possibility of loss.<\/p>\n The exhibition takes its title from a medical code, O47.0. A combination of seemingly meaningless letters and numbers, it carries profound significance for a mother who has given birth prematurely. In the neonatal intensive care unit, the usual order of life comes to a halt: the baby is not yet home, but is already in the world; the woman has given birth, but cannot yet be a mother in the way she had imagined. This is a liminal state in which familiar forms of motherhood are disrupted and the very nature of the bond between mother and child is reconsidered.<\/p>\n At the heart of the installation, created especially for this exhibition, an incubator becomes a metaphor for the mother’s in-between state. In this situation, the mother can no longer take action \u2013 she can only observe, count, wait and hope. Trying to gain control over what cannot be controlled, she follows every sign of her baby’s life. At the same time, the incubator reveals the mother’s own vulnerability \u2013 her transformation into a \u201cpremature mother\u201d. She enters a state in which she, too, needs care and support.<\/p>\n The calendar pages used in the installation mark time that seems both suspended and irreversibly slipping away. They bear witness to a paradoxical experience: every day, the mother longs for it to end as quickly as possible, yet these very days are the only beginning of her child’s life. Drawing becomes an attempt to stop time and preserve what she once wished to escape \u2013 a confrontation with the guilt that arose from this experience.<\/p>\n The exhibition explores an identity taking shape in a transitional state, and a form of motherhood born not only of closeness, but also of waiting, uncertainty, repeated acts of care and the constant longing to be where one cannot be. Motherhood becomes not so much about being physically present as about persistently choosing to return. It is a story of love learning how to live.<\/p>\n This exhibition is part of the project \u201cHealth: From Almshouses to Hospitals\u201d, supported by Vilnius City Municipality.<\/p>\n Project partner:<\/strong> Lithuanian Library of Medicine<\/p>\n Exhibition curator:<\/strong> Saul\u0117 Ma\u017eeikait\u0117-Teiber\u0117<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":238359,"template":"","categories":[12,10],"tags":[],"ticket-vendor":[],"class_list":["post-238358","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nemokami-renginiai","category-parodos"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t