Photographer Simonas Vaikasas presents his works at the Lithuanian Embassy
Photographer Simonas Vaikasas presents his works at the Lithuanian Embassy. The main visual motif in Simonas Vaikasas's photography is the sea coast, where one finds the intersection of the elements of water, sky and earth. It is as if the coast replicates the model of the world into which the shimmering soul of a sensitive human being modestly interpolates itself. The exhibition will be open 20 October – 24 November, Mo-Fr, 10.00-17.00. Please register in advance if you would like to visit the exhibition: dirmaitelaura@gmail.com
In Vaikasas's works, next to the endless sea and the eternal dome of the sky, the fragility of human existence settles over the sand and it is as if that fragility is highlighted by the debris found there polished by the water and the sun or a bird feather carried away somewhere by the wind. It is interesting how opposites are in harmony here - a naive playful existence and an overpowering sense of inevitability, silence and anxiety. And that is why it is as if Vaikasas's works are made up of several layers, each of which allowing the viewer to chose whatever angle from which comfortably to comprehend a particular work. One of them satisfies a lyrically light and undemanding glimpse yearning for romance, and in another - besides the breathing of an inexhaustible eternity, the cold damp shadow of death and inevitability is revealed.
There is no pretension in Vaikasas's work to a search for new ways of expression or any effort to surprise or shock. Rather, it is a straightforward attempt to convey the dampness of existence and the atmosphere of the coast filled with lyricism and melancholy.
