This exhibition follows the story of the development and exploration of identity in Lithuanian photography through time. Historical context – major events and politics of the state that affected not only artistic creation and its dissemination, but also the dynamic world of individuals – is extremely important here. The exhibition does not avoid contradictions and inconsistencies, but aims only to widen the polylogue between the works and allow unexpected but eloquent connections to arise. The exhibition consists of three parts that follow both chronological and thematic guidelines: ‘Identity as Reality’, ‘Identity as an Object’ and ‘Identity as Idea’. The exhibition, although chronologically structured, aims not so much to systematically recreate the history of the country’s photography, but to convey the diversity of voices and the medium which was (and still is) used by artists who contributed to the formation of the perception of identity (national, communal, individual) and also offered future trajectories for identity.
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