Ignas Krunglevicius
Interrogation, 2009

Artist
Ignas Krunglevicius

Title
Interrogation

Year of creation
2009

Technology and duration
video installation, 13 minutes

Year of acquisition
2010

Acquisition of the foundation

A student and a priest get married. They move into a brick house and have children: an average family in the United States - until the wife shoots her husband. Ignas Krunglevicius' video work Interrogation documents the police interrogation after the crime. Questions and answers are projected onto the wall, informing the viewer about exactly the type of conversation that one party forces, but the other tries to escape from - even if it means confessing. Power and violence are the focus when the investigator's manipulative tactics force the murderer to confess to her crime. We read her name - Mary Kovik - but the criminal subject disappears behind the anonymity of the text. Instead, Krunglevicius translates the police interrogation method into sharp, pulsating tones that give the work itself an unbridled violence. The murderer now becomes a victim herself and at the same time the viewer is involved in the event. Both witness and accused in the interrogation, he is confronted with a disturbing realization through the musical cadence and the compelling nature of the questioning: the point has been passed at which there could have been any escape from the chain of events that now follows.