Instagram miserabilia

I associate my photography with slow, observant walking. This draws a new topography of a place – a seamless rhythm of steps, images and thoughts. I create visual maps of my mobile thoughts. These images are the projections of aesthetic ecstasy occurring in the relationship between objects. But in this superficial cheerfulness of colours and shapes, there is a deeper source of anxiety. I want to unravel it by capturing the poorly disguised traces of imperfection. To openly observe the collapsing scenery of life is my way of seeing. The timelessness that shines through in the medium of the fluid and momentary nature of Instagram images is fascinating. I aim to stop the world from disappearing down the throat of virtuality, by combining the classical composition of Poussin’s paintings, theories of urbanism and the "miserable" filter of Instagram.

Virginijus Kinčinaitis. Klaipėda, 2021. Mobiliography

Virginijus Kinčinaitis (b. 1965) is an art critic, curator, and photographer. He has initiated and realised dozens of national and international projects, and participated in more than 30 exhibitions and artistic projects. He has published several hundred theoretical, culturological and critical articles. He has published three monographs: "Interpretations: Postmodernism, Visual Culture, Fine Art", "Con/texts of Visual Culture", and "Exercises in Photographic Sight". Instagram photographs by Virginijus Kinčinaitis are held in the collections of the MO Museum and JCDecaux Lietuva, as well as in private collections.