Dovilė Dagienė’s exhibition – on the Lodz Worldwide Pictures Pageant | Tradition

The displays offered on the exhibition, ie creative installations and natural pictures, reveal the theme of the reminiscence of Lithuanian Jews in a brand new manner.

The exhibition was impressed by the experiences and experiences of Jakub Mowszowicz (1901–1983), professor of botany on the universities of Vilnius and Lodz, which connects Vilnius and Lodz.

Of the big household, solely Jakub Mowszowicz survived after the conflict, and the Lithuanians contributed to his rescue. Greater than 30 members of J. Mowszowicz’s household had been killed in Paneriai, whose meadow the Vilnius botanist studied earlier than the conflict.

After the conflict, he settled in Łódź, the place one of many largest Jewish ghettos established by the Hitlerites operated till the tip of the conflict. Professor Mowszowicz labored on the College of Łódź, turned one of the vital well-known botanists in Poland and educated a number of generations of botanists.

The exhibition is exhibited in 4 well-known Nineteenth-century buildings. Within the halls of the just lately renovated villa of Łódź architect Hilary Majewski. The curator of the exhibition, Adamas Mazuras, along with the writer of the exhibition, ready the exhibition for nearly a yr. The annotation of the exhibition was written by botanist Radvilė Rimgailė-Vojcik.

The opening of D.Dagienė’s images exhibition “Botanizerė” attracted an enormous crowd of holiday makers, the exhibition was visited by essentially the most well-known Polish curators, professors of botany on the College of Lodz, international photographers and pageant managers.

Organizers’ picture/Dovilė Dagienė’s exhibition

This isn’t the primary exhibition of the artist’s works in Poland. in 2022 exhibitions from the collection “Reminiscence of Vegetation”, which current to the viewers pictures printed on plant leaves from the archive of the Vilnius Gaon Jewish Historical past Museum, offered in Kielce, and in 2023 – within the Seinai White Synagogue. in 2023 D.Dagiene’s pictures had been exhibited on the Sopot Pictures Pageant.

The curator of the “Botanizerė” exhibition visited Lithuania a number of occasions as a part of this system of visits of the Lithuanian Institute of Tradition and the residency program of the Lithuanian Union of Photographic Artists.

Lodz Picture Pageant is among the most well-known festivals in Poland, attracting over 20,000 guests yearly. On the pageant, greater than 30 exhibitions are exhibited in varied locations, the authors of which come from varied international locations. Lithuanian photographers have been offered on the pageant for greater than a decade.

The exhibition “The Botanist” shall be on show at Hilary Majewski’s villa in Łódź till July 7. Later, it will likely be obtainable for viewing within the VDA exhibition corridor “Titanikas”.

The Lodz Worldwide Pictures Pageant, the Lithuanian Institute of Tradition, the Lithuanian Embassy in Warsaw, and the Honorary Consul of Lithuania in Lodz contributed to the manufacturing, group and coordination of D.Dagienė’s exhibition.