Echo Gone Wrong Photo reportage from "The Grain of Photography" exhibition

Arnas Anskaitis, The Anatomy of Melancholy, 2013. A book transformed into a map; digital print, dimensions variable.

On Thursday, September 25, Kaunas Photography Gallery has opened The Grain of Photography exhibition.

Between the periodically announced death of photography and its present surplus-life, which manifests itself as ceaseless multiplication of images, there must be a third state. In the face of the mentioned dead-end, it is necessary to take from photography the elements that are, were, or could have been the most valuable, and mobilize them for a new life in other aesthetic platforms. It is neither a reanimation or an archeological excavation nor a search for new forms. Rather, it is an attempt to detect the grain of photography where it has always been latently present.

Curated by: Jurij Dobriakov Participants: Gytis Skudžinskas, Rūta Šatalovaitė, Vitalij Červiakov, Arnas Anskaitis, Julius Balčikonis, Tomas Čiučelis

Download the exhibition guide here ^[1].

The exhibition is open until October 22.

Exhibition view, Kaunas Photography Gallery, 2014

Arnas Anskaitis, The Anatomy of Melancholy, 2013. A book transformed into a map; digital print, dimensions variable.

Exhibition view, Kaunas Photography Gallery, 2014

Julius Balčikonis, Ruins of the Šilo bridge, 2009. Graphite on paper, 21×29.7 cm

Gytis Skudžinskas, Retouch, 2014. 9 silver gelatin prints, 16×21 cm

Exhibition view, Kaunas Photography Gallery, 2014

Tomas Čiučelis, Blackout, 2014. Video projection, subtitles

Rūta Šatalovaitė, Collective Dreams No. 1, 2014. 12 graphic prints, 50×70 cm

Vitalij Červiakov, ☼, 2010-2013. Series of happenings, collection of found objects

Exhibition view, Kaunas Photography gallery, 2014

Photographs by Arnas Anskaitis