Narkevicius' work centers around the relationship between the individual and history, personal experience and mediation through the media. Although he deals with contemporary themes in his work, the underlying problems reach far back into history. The works were created at a time of dynamic upheaval in the post-communist society, in which there was no time left for historical reflection or for developing future perspectives.

In the work at the O.K Narkevicius uses found-footage material from the national Lithuanian TV archive and makes the action run backwards. "Once in the 20th Century" questions the credibility of the images. The film shows a happy crowd in Vilnius apparently witnessing not the overthrow, but the erecting of a statue of Lenin.
Biennial of the National Gallery Prague, 2005

Deimantas Narkevicius, born in 1964 in Utena, Lithuania, lives and works in Vilnius