The starting point of 'Father', Mykolas Valantinas' solo exhibition, is the archive of drawings and prints by his father, artist Rytis Valantinas, which the son transforms using artificial intelligence. The filter of new technologies brings to the surface the contradictory dynamics between father and son: a mixture of adoration and a 'desire' to appropriate or 'take over' the father's work. The AI-generated images that interpolate the archive are exhibited alongside another essential offshoot of the father's creative oeuvre – money.      

Rytis Valantinas is the author of some of the first banknotes of independent Lithuania – the talonas and litas. He also created a 1000-litas note that never entered circulation. The exhibition presents money in a twofold manner: as a political, cultural and economic symbol and as a family relic, laden with memories and claims of inheritance. The deconstruction of the 1000-litas note into the constituent elements needed for counterfeiting becomes a creative gesture that binds together personal and mythological worlds, exposes the mechanisms of value creation, and blurs the boundaries between original and copy, reality and fiction.