Drazdauskaite's choice to take "photos for memory" testifies to an auto/ironic and conceptual approach to photography - a way to overcome the resistance of the models and not to deny the authorship of the photographer. Milda Drazdauskaitė's work, like that of her contemporaries and colleagues Algirdas Šeškaus, Alfonsas Budvytis, Vytautas Balčytis and Gintaras Zinkevičius, should be reconsidered within the context of contemporary art and photography. The author's works are characterised by obvious posing, performances of a more beautiful life for models, highlighting the absurdity of everyday life, the dissonance between what we are and what we want to look like. The exhibition focuses on the artist's favourite characters - the ladies and the bobbies. Unlike the first time the exhibition was presented at the Vilnius Photography Gallery, it also briefly looks back at everyone else posing next to them. Alongside the female archetypes, the casual and responsible posers, Milda's personal "photos for memory" come to life - autobiographical shots from her personal archive - witnesses of a complex and expressive social and historical period. The Kaunas Photography Gallery (Vilniaus g. 2, Kaunas) will be open until 25 September.
Milda Drazdauskaitė: "Ladies, babushkas and everyone else" Sessions