Until October 5, Kaunas Photography Gallery is hosting an exhibition of publications entitled “After Time: (Re)written Stories of Photography,” which accompanied “Kaunas Art Book Fair 2025″ held at the gallery over the weekend.
Participants: Agneta Arbačauskaitė, Ieva Baltaduonytė, Laisvūnas Karvelis, Rusnė Kuliešiūtė, Augustynas Sinkevič, Ieva Stankutė, Rytis Šafranauskas, Ugnė Šlaičiūnaitė, Andrėja Taranda, Severina Venckutė.
What happens when history loses its linear flow? When a narrative fractures not because of ignorance, but as a conscious decision – as a critical gesture, as reflection, as an invitation to think differently?
The exhibition “After Time” presents various attempts at rewriting, fragmenting, and appropriating the history of photography, born out of creative workshops. It is not a reconstruction but rather a defragmentation: cracks through which new possibilities for reading emerge. Here, the history of photography is not a final, completed version – it becomes a process: unstable, subjective, at times intimate.
The exhibited works resemble unfinished narratives, where raising questions becomes more important than finding answers. They are attempts to rethink history, to read it in one’s own way, to adapt it, to rewrite it from the perspective of personal experience or from fragments found by chance.
Alongside these creative gestures, different versions of photography’s history from recent decades are presented: academic publications, national narratives, alternative archives. They do not necessarily complement each other; rather, they create tension – between center and periphery, between institutional knowledge and individual memory, between official time and privately experienced time. Some speak loudly and confidently, others only in silent marginal notes.
“After Time” is not about what happened. It is about what we might remember differently: from mistakes, from omissions, from details that never reached the main stage but nevertheless existed. Existed because of us, or perhaps because we are able to read them anew.
This workshop is the result of collaboration between Kaunas Photography Gallery and the recently established Photography Master’s Program (FoMAK) at the Vilnius Academy of Arts Kaunas Faculty. The workshop was led by Inga Navickaitė Drąsutė, Visvaldas Morkevičius, and Gintaras Česonis, who shared their knowledge and experience.
The exhibition is supported by the Lithuanian Council for Culture and Kaunas City Municipality. The patron of Kaunas Photography Gallery is AON, main sponsor is letsinvest.eu.