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The beginning of Lithuanian Independence - from an unexpected angle. Through the splendor and poverty of beauty contests, the comedy and absurdities of social contexts are reflected.
July 6 At 12:00, the opening of the photo exhibition "Masquerade Balls" by the president of the Lithuanian Press Photographers Club, exhibition curator and cultural producer Jonas Staselis and a meeting with the author will take place at the Birštonas Cultural Center. Jonas Staselis will discuss the contexts of the first decade of independence and the beauty contests that took place at that time. It will also give you the opportunity to take a look at photographs that will not be exhibited in the exhibition.
The exhibition demonstrates by means of reportage photography that not only the world of beauty contests can be exhibited as an illusory, artificial, pretend, constantly changing kaleidoscope of masks - social roles. In the photographs, social reality emerges as a never-ending carnival of masks.
The subject of this exhibition is a photographer, as if a mediator between the world of beauty and everyday life. Ironically, but also with sadness, with unfulfilled longing, observing the changing forms of social reality - he observes and marvels, he observes and amazes us all by demonstrating and preparing - masks and roles - as if in a distant but never-ending mask ball performance.
The exhibition is supported by:
"KristiAna", "Taurakalnis"
The exhibition is financed by:
Vilnius city municipality
Friends of the exhibition:
FotoProCentras, Foto123, Šiauliai Art Gallery, Šiauliai Museum of Photography
The exhibition is organized by:
VšĮ Lithuanian Press Photographers Club and MB "Closed Territories"
