A.Bondarev’s images exhibition – practices of “domestication” and an analog take a look at an individual | Tradition

That is the artist’s first private exhibition in Lithuania, which presents a sequence of analog images and poetic etudes, in addition to a video work. On this sequence, an genuine take a look at Man and the ideas invented by the artist – housing – observe as a relationship between being with oneself and the Different.

“I have been touring quite a bit within the final decade, mainly I did not have a everlasting bodily house. After staying longer in Sakartvel, wandering round Morocco, I began to (pa)observe what’s house to me and search for it – namauti. I perceive “house” within the broadest sense as an area (not essentially a four-walled one) the place we really feel and will be ourselves – via varied habits and rituals, and most significantly – with the assistance of different genuine folks”, – regarding housing the observe is advised by the creator of the exhibition, A. Bondarev.

The pictures and texts introduced within the exhibition are related housing consequence. Displayed like on a regular basis garments slipped out of a journey backpack, these images deal with an individual – bare, actual and due to this fact himself, paradoxically and all the time distinctive, and revealing common values, timeless truths. Right here, the distinction between kids, previous folks, mountaineers or avenue distributors met on the highway and the closest mates, buddies and members of the family of the photographer disappears. By leveling globality and locality on this means, particular person identification and belonging to the group now not negate one another, however act as two sides of the identical one-way ticket. This ticket, in the meantime, leads house – to your self in reference to the Different.

“Beginning on the highway namauti, as if by probability I had an analog digicam hanging round my neck: I began capturing genuine or in any other case acquainted folks and conditions. On the identical time, the images itself, the sensation and outline of the captured life, not solely with gentle, but in addition with phrases, has turn out to be a ritual that represents house,” the creator continues.

Photograph by Alexandra Bondarev/Little adults. Tetouan, Morocco, 2022

The photographs primarily based on the ideas of humanistic anthropology and spontaneous documentary are accompanied by texts – poetic etudes born from experiences on the road-at house and tales that contextualize the introduced pictures.

Conferences with the artist A. Bondarev shall be organized in the course of the exhibition. The primary tour with the creator will happen on June 15 at 2 p.m. Details regarding different conferences will be discovered on the social networks of the gallery “Drifts”.

A. Bondarev is a younger technology artist who works within the fields of analog images, documentary video artwork and poetry. in 2016 graduated from Lithuanian Research and Spanish Research at Vilnius College. Having lived in seven international locations for the previous decade and continually touring to totally different continents, from 2023 the creator spends extra time in her native Vilnius.

She is well-known within the Lithuanian artwork scene as a translator and editor of cultural texts, since 2022. A. Bondarev started to share his private work extra broadly. in 2023 her works had been introduced for the primary time on the Tbilisi gallery “Fotografia” on the exhibition of three photographers “Based mostly in Tbilisi”, later on the up to date artwork fair-exhibition “Komisas” “Tech Zity” in Vilnius and on the “Images Weekend” in Vilnius. in 2022 her poetic work was printed in Sarajevo’s cultural journal “Punkura”, and within the following years was introduced on the Rupert Artwork and Schooling Middle and MO Museum in Vilnius as a part of the undertaking “Chrestomatija of Love”.

The exhibition on the up to date artwork gallery “Drifts” will run till 2024. June 28 The gallery is positioned in Vilnius, T. Vrublevskios st. 6-2, working hours III-F: 12-18, VI: 12-16. Visiting is free.

The exhibition is financed by the Lithuanian Council of Tradition.


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2024-06-08 02:55:00

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