"Water Children" by Vidas Biveinis at the Lithuanian Embassy in London
Updated 2008-11-12
13 November 2008 - January 19 2008. Lithuanian Embassy in the UK and the Lithuanian Photographers’ Association presents “Water Children”, the exhibition by the award-winning young Lithuanian photographer Vidas Biveinis, whose work is swinging between documentary and art photography.
For Vidas Biveinis, water represents a changing emotion, expressive of anything from fear to humour, from childhood memories to hidden secrets. “These photographs are not about the relationship of man and nature; they are our story of human existence affected by nature, relationships with our friends, the world around us, our own state of mind.”
In his main series “7th Day” (2007), taken in his hometown of Ignalina, the black-and-white prints capture children diving and twirling and cannonballing, solo and in groups. “I was looking for how every single child is interacting with emotions and with his friends, for how they express their emotions,” says Biveinis.
The series is continuation of his “6th Day” (2005) series, showing also at the exhibition, in which men whose skin colour matches the caramel sky of dusk wander a beach when, at 6pm, the sunset cast a stunning orange glow.
In another series, “Fears” (2006), the photographer experimented with underwater photos, making case out of plastic sugar box so he could immerse a camera in water and create horizon that splits the life happening above and below the surface. Although he tries to avoid staging his photographs, in “Fears”, Vidas Biveinis spent three days immersed in water, reconstructing the clear box to create the effect desired. Symbolic and murky, the images capture mysterious figures above on the lake side and limbs immersed in water.
Such perfectionism give his photographs a flawless sheen. Firm in his mind are the images that he wants to replicate in reality, so he just waits for that moment to occur.
His main series, “7th Day” (2007) received critical acclaim in Lithuania and led to an invitations to the Moscow International Festival of Art and Gallery Strenger in Tokyo for solo show earlier this year. His photographs were also exhibited at Photo de mer (2006, Vannes, France), Photography Gallery in Vilnius (2007), China PINGYAO International Photography Festival (2008).
Supported by Lithuanian Ministry of Culture.
Location: Lithuanian Embassy in London, 84 Gloucester Place, London W1U 6AU
Location: Lithuanian Embassy in London, 84 Gloucester Place, London W1U 6AU
For further information please contact Daiva Parulskiene: culture@lithuanianembassy.co.uk
Tel: 020 7935 9872
Tel: 020 7935 9872
