Marilia Destot’s exhibition “The Journey” will open at LSMU Emanuelis Levinas Center at 6 pm on 14th of July. On the occasion of the opening of the exhibition, the artist will give a tour around the exhibition. The event will be held in French and Lithuanian.
In the exhibition “The Journey”, French artist Marilia Destot talks about memory, its poetic nature and fragility. The exhibition presents recent mixed media artistic projects, in which the artist explores her family’s historical roots in Lithuania and recreates a memory activated by imagination.
Marilia Destot became interested in her Lithuanian roots and Jewish heritage in 2021, when she first visited Lithuania. Since 2019, the artist has been developing the project called “The Journey”, started at Kaunas Photography Gallery, where she combines archival material with the memories and stories of her family members to create a distinctive, memory-based, historical biography of several different generations.
Marilia Destot (1977) is a French photographer living and working in New York, USA. Her sories of portraits, dance and landscape photography explore the cyclical nature of time, its passage and the tracs we leave behind.
Her work has been awarded numerous prizes and exhibited at numerous institutions and festivals in Europe and USA, including Rencontres de la Photographie in Arles, The Bourse de Talent/BNF in Paris, The French Institute in New York, among others.
The exhibition runs until 25th of August.
The exhibition will be open on Wednesdays and Thursdays, at 11 a.m. – 5 p.m.
For visiting the exhibition at another time, please contact: info@kaunasgallery.lt
Free entrance.
The exhibition is organized by Kaunas Photography Gallery
The exhibition is a part of “Kaunas 2022″ and “Citytelling Festival 2022″ programmes.
The exhibition is supported by “Kaunas 2022″, Lithuanian Council for Culture, French Institute in Lithuania and LSMU Emanuel Levinas Center.