On March 13, at 5:30 PM, Valentyn Odnoviun’s exhibition “What Remains: Limits of Perception” will open at Kaunas Photography Gallery (Vilniaus g. 2).
The exhibition brings together works that raise historical and social questions. These are explored through images that resist direct representation. Rather than reconstructing oppression through documentary clarity, the exhibition explores what remains after its visible mechanisms have receded: the continuity of control, the persistence of traces, and the repetition of institutional logic across different political regimes. In the works presented in the exhibition, the same places and structures appear not as stable historical evidence, but as spaces where the consequences of violence, surveillance, and isolation remain active. They remain on both a material and conceptual level.
The title of the exhibition indicates its two main themes. What Remains points to persistence – not of the event itself, but of what remains after it: conditions, traces, and structures that continue to operate. Limits of Perception names the instability in which these works operate. Here, photography is understood not as a representation, but as a field open to interpretation, where what we see does not always coincide with what we understand, recognize, remember, or know. These images do not seek to directly testify to events. They function more as traces marking the threshold where the consequences of history meet our perception, and the consequences of human actions become broader than their momentary recognition.
Valentyn Odnoviun is an artist, curator, and researcher who lives and works in Lithuania. The author’s projects are linked to historical and social events and developed using a restrained visual language in which images act as traces and structures that invite interpretation and reflection on the limits of perception. Valentyn is a lecturer at the Vilnius Academy of Arts and curator of the Šiauliai Photography Museum. He is currently completing his doctoral studies, researching the connections between Ukrainian and Baltic art photography.
The exhibition will run until April 19.
The exhibition is supported by the Kaunas City Municipality and the Lithuanian Council for Culture. The patron of Kaunas Photography Gallery is AON.