Silence
Lituanie
2011Artiste présenté par le festival In Focus (Lituanie)
2008 – ongoing, pinhole photography.
The works in this series abandon the parameters of space and time that facilitate orientation, and seek to address the oversaturated market of reproduced images.
A photograph devoid of an event and message disorients the viewer and does away with the experience of vision as fast cognition. Images captured in nature sites and public or private spaces do not convey those locations’ precise parameters, but rather comprise a continuous visual structure, the principal objective of which is to emphasize the line between the visible and the invisible, the familiar and the foreign, the natural and the social, instead of reproducing the present situation. If one understands silence as a protest against predictable twaddle, one can say that excess visual references are eliminated in these photographs.
On the other hand, the photographs’ ascetic visual quality acts as a reference to and a re-reading of the history of minimalist art.
Portfolio
à propos de l'artiste
Bibliographie / Bibliography
- 2009 : Gytis Skudžinskas, « Photography/Installations », Edition Hohes Ufer, Ahrenshoop, Germany.
- 2007 : Gytis Skudžinskas « Tracesecartraces… », A. Mončys House-Museum, Palanga, Lithuania.
- 2008 : « Carrying a Watermark », exhibition catalogue, Klaipėda/Warsaw, Lithuania/Poland.
- 2008 : « Baltija », Klaipeda university publishing, Klaipeda, Lithuania.
- 2008 : « Variable Spaces », exhibition catalogue, Klaipėda/Berlin, Lithuania/Germany.
- 2007 :
- « Lithuanian Photography : Yesterday and Today / 07″made by M. Matulyte, Lithuanian photo fund, Vilnius.
- « Lithuanian photography », Sviesa publishing house, Kaunas, Lithuania.
- « 7 towns Klaipeda », exhibition catalogue, Klaipeda, Lithuania.
- « Klaipeda’s photography », exhibition catalogue, Klaipeda, Lithuania.
- « Time », exhibition catalogue, Stockholm, Sweden.
- 2006 :
- « Jeune Creation Europeenne », exhibition catalogue, Montrouge, France.
- « Lithuanian Photography : yesterday and today / 06 » made by M. Matulyte, Lithuanian photo fund, Vilnius.
- « Erosion », exhibition catalogue, Klaipeda, 2006.
Commissioned photography books
- 2009 : Leonidas Donskis « 99 Baltic Stories », Klaipėda, Lithuania.
- 2008 : Elena Kraniauskaitė « At the Edge of World », Klaipėda, Lithuania.
- 2007 : Photo album « Gargždai. City », Klaipėda, Lithuania.