Milda Drazdauskaitė is a little presented and researched Lithuanian photographer, who worked in changing historical circumstances, at the crossroads between classical humanist photography and “conceptualists“. This liminality is the author’s strength and obstacle.
Artist since 1978. started participating in exhibitions and working in the Society of Lithuanian Photographic Artists, some of her works traveled to a number of European galleries, even Antanas Sutkus entrusted her with the printing of his photos.
M. Drazdauskaitė’s choice to do „photos for memory“ testifies to an auto/ironic and conceptual approach to photography – it is a way to overcome the resistance of models and not emphasize the authorship of the photographer.
Milda Drazdauskaitė’s work, like the works of her contemporaries and colleagues Algirdas Šeškaus, Alfonso Budvytis, Vytautas Balčytis, Gintaras Zinkevičius, should be reviewed in the context of contemporary art and photography. The author’s works are characterized by obvious posing, models’ performances of a more beautiful life, highlighting the absurdity of everyday life, the dissonance between what they are and what they want to look like.
The exhibition focuses on the author’s favorite characters – ladies and baboons. Unlike when presenting the exhibition for the first time in the Vilnius photography gallery, one briefly looks back at all the others posing next to them.
Photo of the archive of the Lithuanian Union of Photographic Artists/Milda Drazdauskaitė’s photo.
Next to female archetypes, random and responsible posers, Milda’s personal “photos for memory” come to life – autobiographical shots from the personal archive – witnesses of a complex and expressive social and historical period.
Photo of the archive of the Lithuanian Union of Photographic Artists/Milda Drazdauskaitė’s photo.
The exhibition will be open until October 25.
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2024-08-20 13:21:31