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REGIONE NUBIBUS

Regione Nubibus offers a glimpse into Lithuania’s transition from a communist to a capitalist state, focusing on two peripheral areas: Šalčininkai – Divided Villages and Visaginas – Nuclear City. During the twentieth century, Lithuania experienced various phases: a period of independence, periods of Nazi and Soviet occupation, and some parts of contemporary Lithuania also belonged to Poland. After proclaiming independence from the Soviet Union in 1990, the initial euphoria of freedom in Lithuania was soon accompanied by the hardships of economic and ideological transition. Concepts such as state, democracy, identity, and culture underwent redefinition, while people’s minds, diets, and wardrobes were filled with little-known or unknown things. By utilising photography, video, sound recording, archival material and written narrative, I investigate personal and social memory as well as present existence in relation to politics and identity.

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grete tvarkunaite art photography documenary multimedia

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Gretė Tvarkūnaitė (b.’94) is a photographer / multimedia artist (BA Photography ’16, MA Digital Media ’17, University of Huddersfield, UK). The main subject that interests her and therefore occupies her work is a study of people: their relationship to the physical environment, and to the economic, political and intellectual conditions that determine them.

Her work has been presented in various group exhibitions and media outlets in the United Kingdom (’15 – ’18), China (’16) and Lithuania (’17 – ’24). For the project “not one dimensional society”, Gretė was awarded major bursary by the Association for Photography in Higher Education (APHE, UK, ’16) and Dean’s Award for Contemporary Practice (University of Huddersfield, UK, ’16). Also, was an artist selected for the Royal Photographic Society’s lnternational Photography Exhibition 160 (RPS, UK, ’17), Vilnius Photo Circle Festival (LT, ’17) and Nida OFF (LT. ’20). For the project “region nubibus”, Gretė was an artist selected for the Photo Circle Festival (LT, ’23).

She also curates as well as coordinates projects and residencies at the independent art platform “Iškrovos” and the Užupis art incubator (LT).

grete tvarkunaite art photography documenary multimedia

currently based in Vilnius, Lithuania
/ works on personal and commissioned projects worldwide
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