LITHUANIAN PHOTOGRAPHY SEASON IN SCOTLAND
Street Level Photoworks are delighted to announce our season of Lithuanian Photography which coincides with Lithuania's Presidency of the European Union. This significant programme will bring to Scotland the largest representation of Lithuanian photography to date in the UK, giving Scottish audiences a unique insight into the dynamic culture of Lithuanian art photography.
The exhibitions take place at Street Level Photoworks and Hidden Lane Gallery, Glasgow from August 10th, then a second series at Street Level and the Harbour Arts Centre, Irvine, in October. The season is the result of a 3 year partnership with Kaunas Photography Gallery, curators and artists in Lithuania. Most of the exhibitions have been specially curated and the majority of artists have not exhibited in the UK before.
2013 marks 20 years since Street Level staged the first major exhibition of Baltic photography in Britain, which included work from Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania. This current exhibition focuses on photography from Lithuania, including significant work from the 80s and 90s. A critical component is the inclusion of some work by little known artists groups which expressed a postmodern view of the world and a shift from traditional approaches - the Carnavora group, and the mysterious and untypical Doooooris.
Artists include: Vytautas Pletkus, Arturas Valiauga, Algirdas Seskus, Vilma Samulionyte, Mindaugas Azusilis, Arunas Kulikauskas, Giedrius Liagas and artists from that original Borderlands show, Vytautas Stanionis and Alvydas Lukys.
Domicele Tarabildiene (1912-1985) was a well known inter-war artist whose spectrum of creative means and expression was wide - engraving, book illustration and applied graphics, painting, and sculpture. Her poetic and surreal photography, however, has only recently attracted public attention in Europe. This exhibition presents 30 significant photographs from the early 30s, most using the photo-montage technique.
