The turn of the century marked new changes in Lithuanian photography. The development of technology and the emergence of digital photography have transformed it into a major part of contemporary art. As the global art field opened up and the local art scene greedily absorbed different contexts, photography became very diverse.
In their works, artists analyse various contemporary processes and their relationship to the past in different forms. They develop the idea of identity as an unstable, changing social entity. By applying research strategies, artists do not seem to seek objective documentation and no longer claim to reveal the “truth”, but rather aim to destabilise and deconstruct what has seemed self-evident and unchanging.
In the context of global cultural visualisation, namely the excess of images and their constant proliferation, artists highlight the problematic relationship between photography (more broadly, image) and identity.