CONTINUING OF THE PHOTOGRAPHY FESTIVAL

Lithuanian Photographers Association Klaipėda branch is representing the continuation of the sixth Festival of Photography on 7 December 2021, Friday, 6 pm.(Didžioji vandens st. 2, Klaipėda) where  two more spectacular exhibitions will be represented.

It has become a tradition that the last two months of the year are dedicated to the art of photography at the KCCC Exhibition Hall. The sixth Festival of Photography continues with the presentation of two more exceptional exhibitions: the photography based Belarusian contemporary art exhibition „Red Line“ and Valentyn Odnoviun’s exhibition „Sequential Fixation“.

 

Photography-based Belarusian contemporary art exhibition “The Red Line” where

 recent works of Belarusian artists, created by photography or similar media (video, drawings, collages) are represented.

Valentyn Odnoviun’s exhibition “Sequential Fixation”

Photographer Valentyn Odnoviun presents a series of projects based on the different regimes that existed in the 20th century in the Baltic States, Ukraine, Poland and Germany.  Those regimes used surveillance, interrogation and control as a means of governance.

 

 

These projects reflect historical and social events and issues, rendered in abstract images that awakens the public’s imagination in order to provoke communication through interpretation and conceptual thinking. The author’s research sends a clear message: despite the fact that the means of monitoring, control and information gathering have moved from physical to digital formats, the essence has not changed. The main objective remains the same – absolute physical and mental control of society.

The artist explores the relationship between the image and its perception in his projects. It is more important than image recognition.

Works of art reveal not only the limits of human perception, but also the limit beyond which the consequences of human action collide with its causality.

The artist presents several photographic cycles in the exhibition “Sequential Fixation”. The project “Observation” captures the peepholes of former political prisoners’ cell doors, which are interpreted as “planets” by  the art historian Agnė Narušytė. The “Architecture of Evidence” series uses the form of contemporary art to tell the story of former KGB and Gestapas prisons, concentration and prisoner of war camps in Lithuania; the series of “Horizons“ is about secret execution sites in Poland. The project “Traces of Memory”, where an analogue slide projection and the text of Julijus Fučikas are combined, tells the story of the inhuman activities of the Gestapas in Berlin; the project “Traces of Memory“, is an analogue slide projection combined with the project  “Process“, presents an unused photographic paper used to record prisoners, found in the photo lab of a former prison, while the series of HKP-562 is about historic sites that are currently used as residential premises.

Valentyn Odnoviun (born in 1987) is a photographer who lives and works in Lithuania. He teaches visual arts at Vilnius Academy of Arts and in European Humanities University. He is currently working on his dissertation at the Lithuanian Culture Research Institute. His dissertation is about lithuanian photography in the global context.

 

The exhibitions of the Festival of Photography are partly financed by the Lithuanian Council for Culture and Klaipėda City Municipality Administration.

The curator of the exibitions – Darius Vaičekauskas. 

The exhibitions will run until 16 January 2022.

Opening hours of the KCCC Exhibition Hall (Didžioji Vandens st. 2, Klaipėda): Wednesday-Sunday 11am-7pm. (closed on public holidays).

Photography and filming will take place during the event. Please note that participants may be seen in photographs and videos of the event, which may be published in various media.

Visitors are asked to observe the security requirements during the quarantine restrictions.