narayanan v
Born in 1967. In Vilnius. Since 1999 In photography projects, he consistently delves into the topic of social and national identity, follows the processes and results of its change, and visually analyzes the concept of home, in a broad sense, and its manifestations. In the series “About the Land of Longing” (2013), “Between the Shores” (2008), “Kupiškis Hangar” (2008), “Between History and the Present: Trakai Karaites and Daniliškės” (2007), “Silent Identity” (2005–2006), The author "I was with Steppe, we talked about life" (2002), "From the life of pancakes and borscht" (2002), "The week has eight days" (1999), the author observes a person and his living environment . The changing socio-cultural situation and the state of the characters in it have become a common denominator of the author's recent visual research.
Although the history of Lithuania and the experience of the Soviet era are the fulcrum of all A. Valiauga's series and projects, his view of the environment around us is not nostalgic, he is not looking for signs of the past in modern everyday life. On the contrary, A. Valiauga examines what is left, what has changed, and why. The author does not try to eliminate the signs of the present from photography or to disguise unromantic, ugly, domestic, awkward fragments of reality. Lithuanian identity is important to him in the current, 21st century European, world context. A. Valiauga is characterized by a conscious open critical view of the present, a controlled sense of color and time, harmony of the form, expression and theme of photography.
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