{"id":24389,"date":"2025-10-20T09:34:49","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T06:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lndm.devmerit.com\/prano-domsaicio-galerija\/parodos\/even-if-its-the-end-of-the-world-the-landscape-in-lithuanian-photography\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T09:34:49","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T06:34:49","slug":"even-if-its-the-end-of-the-world-the-landscape-in-lithuanian-photography","status":"publish","type":"paroda","link":"https:\/\/lndm.devmerit.com\/en\/pranas-domsaitis-gallery\/exhibitions\/even-if-its-the-end-of-the-world-the-landscape-in-lithuanian-photography\/","title":{"rendered":"Even if it\u2019s the end of the world: the landscape in Lithuanian photography\u00a0\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Even if it\u2019s the end of the world<\/span><\/b>, humans will not be inclined to believe in the upcoming apocalypse until the very last second, and will try to suppress the fear aroused by the critical threat of complete self-destruction by focusing on far-away landscapes \u2013 where perceptible reality ends and the imagined world begins, where existential anxiety is dwarfed by the magic of infinite nature.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

On the one hand, the landscape is a fabric of actual places forming the relief and horizon \u2013 the boundary of how far our eyes can see, however, the landscape is also a multifaceted stage for mental and aesthetic action \u2013 a space capable of holding many conflicting emotions and perceptions, and where interests and powers collide. Each societal formation creates its own landscape, suppressing or even destroying the values of earlier political, economic, social, cultural and ecological stages of development, replacing them with\u00a0 its own new ones.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

For some photographers, the landscape is a social environment in which geological, mythological, historical and physical time passes, where the present unites with the past. Landscape photography helps us feel the pulse of worldviews that lingered in past time, not only reflecting the local history but also marking its relativity. Artists elevate the symbolic meanings of landscape, testing them on the value scale of their own lives or that of their epoch.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Other photographers harness the landscape (real or imagined) for the creation of new meanings. Photography, either consciously or intuitively, entrenches the landscape phenomenon \u2013 spaces in which the accumulations of meanings in societal communication are constantly changing and expanding. First to act are ideological provisions and experiences of associativity, which are fed by synthesised, \u201cwild\u201d or anthropogenised locations of nature and culture. Today it is artists\u2019 references to the after-effects of the anthropocene that become especially relevant, and the future perspectives of civilisation as we know it.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0It is true that the <\/span>status quo<\/span><\/i> of the landscape will never crystallise in the reservoirs of individual or even collective memory, because it is the result of inevitable metamorphoses of nature and imagination, unfolding in photographs like a mirage.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Margarita Matulyt\u0117\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Exhibition authors:\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Vytautas Bal\u010dytis (b. 1955)<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Marijonas Baranauskas (1931\u20131995)<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Algimantas Barzd\u017eius (b. 1960)<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Juozas Budraitis (b. 1940)<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Alfonsas Budvytis (1949\u20132003)<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Zenonas Bulgakovas (1939\u20132023)<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Vitalijus Butyrinas (1947\u20132020)<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Dovil\u0117 Dagien\u0117 (b. 1981)<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Pijus Ganusauskas (b. 1989)<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Savelijus Golubevas (1935\u20132007)<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Elena Grudzinskait\u0117 (b. 1987)<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Jonas Kalvelis (1925\u20131987)<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Kotryna \u016ala Kiliulyt\u0117 (b. 1986)<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Geist\u0117 Marija Kin\u010dinaityt\u0117 (b. 1991)<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Marius Krivi\u010dius (b. 1994)<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Algimantas Kun\u010dius (b. 1939)<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Stanislovas Luko\u0161ius (1906\u20131997)<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Paulius Makauskas (b. 1986)<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Lina Margaityt\u0117 (b. 1996)<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Julija Matulyt\u0117 (b. 1988)<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Remigijus Pa\u010d\u0117sa (1955\u20132015)<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Andrej Polukord (b. 1990)<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Romualdas Rakauskas (1941\u20132021)<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Liudvikas Ruikas (1938\u20132004)<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Vaclovas Straukas (1923\u20132017)<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Kristina Sereikait\u0117 (b. 1980)<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Virgilijus \u0160onta (1952\u20131992)<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Remigijus Treigys (b. 1961)<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Raimundas Urbonas (1963\u20131999)<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Audra Vau (b. 1970)<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Julijus Vaicekauskas (b. 1939)<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Darius Vai\u010dekauskas (b. 1978)<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

George Vaitkunas (b. 1956)<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Exhibition curator dr. Margarita Matulyt\u0117<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Coordinators: Skaist\u0117 Mar\u010dien\u0117, Aurelija Malinauskait\u0117<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Exhibition architect\u00a0Ieva Glumac<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Designer Marius \u017dalneravi\u010dius<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Organiser LNDM Prano Dom\u0161ai\u010dio galerija\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Project financed by\u00a0Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Lithuania<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Media partners: LRT, \u201eJCDecaux\u201c, \u201eCgates\u201c<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Sponsor \u201eGrigeo Group\u201c<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Partners: Kauno miesto muziejus, Lietuvos centrinis valstyb\u0117s archyvas, Lietuvos fotomeninink\u0173 s\u0105junga, \u0160iauli\u0173 <\/span>\u201e<\/span>Au\u0161ros<\/span>\u201c<\/span> muziejus<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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