LITHUANIAN PHOTOGRAPHERS AT THE DIFFUSION FESTIVAL IN WALES
Diffusion is a new biennial international photography festival, featuring exhibitions, performances, events and celebrations throughout May in physical and virtual spaces and places, with a stunning line-up of international artists. A special project European Chronicles will feature a new generation of photographic artists from places as Lithuania, Poland, Italy, France, Germany and Norway.
Lithuanian photo artists who will participate in the project are Mindaugas Azusilis and Arturas Valiauga. M. Azusilis (born 1987) is one of the most promising young art photographers in Lithuania. He has worked as a fine art photographer since 2005, participating in group exhibitions in Lithuania, France, Germany, Belgium, Portugal and Russia. M. Azusilis has exhibited and received awards in several international photography competitions including Circulations: Young European Photography, Paris; Encontros da Imagen, Braga, Portugal and Baltic Biennial of Photography. His first photo book Happiness in Lithuania was published in 2012. Arturas Valiauga (born 1967) studied at Vilnius Higher School of Technology before working as a photographer at Vilnius Technical University 1990–1993. Since 1992 he has been a member of the Union of Lithuanian Art Photographers. In 2010 he achieved a Master degree in visual arts at Vilnius Art Academy and he has exhibited in Poland, Slovakia, Estonia, Germany, France and Switzerland. European Chronicles can be seen at Cardiff story gallery. The gallery is open 10 am–5 pm Monday – Saturday and 11 am - 4 pm Sunday. Admission is free.
In the Diffusion you can also see Sraunus project which is collaboration between curator, Paul Paper and writer, Rowan Lear. For the first time, the photographic work will be shown alongside a projection of writing, which will respond, reflect and unravel the images and ideas contained in Sraunus. Sraunus is an evolving slideshow exhibition, with each instalment showing a different selection of over forty young photographic artists. The curated images reflect an emergent trend in post-digital photography: they do not rely on an indexical relationship to reality, nor deal with universal truths. Instead, the photographers follow an experimental path, and come close to a questioning of our visual values. Through a projection and event-led format, Sraunus also invites critical discussion of the changing materiality of the medium and the place of the digital image in the gallery.
Full programme of the festival is available online – http://www.diffusionfestival.org/programme/exhibitions/
