Big Form by prominent Lithuanian photographer Romualdas Požerskis
The ‘Big Form’ exhibition includes over 70 prints created between 1974 and 2005. The Centre of Photography is continuing to introduce a Moscow audience to the Lithuanian school of photography, a movement which created a revolution in the thinking of a whole generation of photographers in the second half of the past century.
Romualdas Požerskis creates big photo projects, and each of them is a complete piece combining both the aesthetic and documentary.
The ‘Victories and defeats’ project (1974-1976) describes the emotions of motocross participants. ‘Old towns of Lithuania’ (1974-1982) is a unique example of Soviet street photography. The ‘Lithuanian pilgrimages’ series (1974-1994) was banned from being exhibited in the USSR and tells the audience about the religious life of Lithuanians. The same topic, but from a different angle, can be seen in the ‘Gardens of memory’ project (1977–2004).
Romualdas Požerskis is not trying to follow the current trends of the global visual culture. His photography is in opposition to the contemporary aesthetics of ‘cold’ documentaries, where a person is not a human but merely a photographed object. Romualdas Požerskis is sympathetic to his characters, whether they are children, who inhabit almost all of his series (‘Children’s hospitals’, 1976–1982), old people from the ‘Last resort’ series (1983–1990), or those unfairly exiled by society (‘Troubles and joys of the little Alfons’ series, 1992–2005).
Open August 13 – October 19, 2014
Ticket: 300 roubles
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