
Anton Lukoszevieze
Elephant in a Landscape
28th February (5.30 p.m.) – 30th March 2024
A solo exhibition of recent work exploring inner time, places, memory maps and conceptual music.
Anton Lukoszevieze is an interdisciplinary artist, musician land composer iving in Vilnius, with photography often at the heart of his practice. In recent years his Lithuanian ancestry has often been a focus of his work, which embraces the liminal spaces and cross currents between different media and contexts. The exhibition features a large body of colour chromogenic drawings, analogue photographs, objects, sounds and other artifacts.
“Do memories have colour or perspective? Maps have signs, shapes, lines and 2-dimensional contours to illustrate the geographic identity of a place, a quasi-aerial view to recreate the reality of a location, which is not the same as the human perspective on the ground. My father described to me how my grandfather remembered in the wintertime sledging down a small hill next to a lake by the dvaras. This is the only memory trace I have of my family in Lithuania. It is fixed in my mind: snow, sky, water, land.”
Anton Lukoszevieze
“The photographic works of Anton Lukoszevieze contain dense networks of connections, across media, cultures, histories and personal memories. This broad spectrum of reference is condensed through the prism of contemporary music and the elusive relation between sounds and the visualisation of their abstract materiality. This is a source of constant experimentation and speculation in Lukoszevieze’s practice. The photographic works that result could be read as an enquiry into involuntary recollection of fugitive impressions. While these may register familiarity’s capacity to surprise, they also serve to remind of an actual basis in a process of forgetting. This paradox is mirrored in the use of photography as an art-form closely linked to painting yet alien from it. Although reference to painterly gesture is important to the works in this exhibition, the marks are essentially different when photography’s mechanics of light and dark affect their sense of timing and capture.”
Joan Key
Gallery working hours: Tue–Fri 12 AM – 6 PM, Sat 12 AM – 4 PM.
Lithuanian Photographers’ Association is funded by the Lithuanian Council for Culture.