Irena Giedraitienė
© Irena Giedraitienė
About The Exhibition
Exhibition Curator: Roberto Muffoletto
Irena Giedraitiene, born 1935 in Panevezys, Lithuania, began photographing in 1955. She grew up in soviet Lithuania.
Her images exhibited here are from a larger archive of images and books (FOTOGRAFIJA // PHOTOGRAPHS , 2005; PRISIMINIMŲ AIDAI // ECHOES OF MEMORIES Photographs , 2015; Moteris su fotokamera // A Woman With A Photo Camera, 2016).
The reader of these images may see them as records of events and people, with short looks into her personal life, But I perfer to se them more than that. First they represent a "life with a camera" at a time when very few Lithuanian woman were photographing; a commitment to photography. Second, her images move beyond pure representational works to the poetics, image as metaphor and emblem. They express more than what can be shown, challenging the reader (viewer) connect the parts.
Irena Giedraitienė is still photographing her world as she explores it.
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On VASA Exhibitions:
VASA Exhibitions over the years have provided a platform for individual and group exhibitions, collaborative exhibitions with various organizations and galleries and exhibitions that follow a particular theme or inquiry such as “Where Do We Go Now” curated by Rui Cepeda and the “Kharkiv School of Photography: Soviet Censorship to New Aesthetics” curated by Igor Manko.
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