Indre Serpytyte
Solo Exhibition
A State Of Silence
In the this body of work, Serpytyte looks at her relationship
with her father, exploring his work as a government
official while Lithuania was occupied by the soviet union, and explores
how her native country was effected by it, though a separate body of work
exhibited a long side A State Of Silence.
The group of still life’s which were situated on the ground
floor of the exhibition exploring the death of her father and the bureaucracy
he was involved in. the images look at different objects affiliated with the
roll he play in the government a type righter, passports and other items, all
photographed with large amounts of blank black space behind them, perhaps to
represent the not knowing whether her father was murdered by the government or
other involved parties and what his work involved him doing, and if he was
connected to the atrocity’s that the soviet union where still carrying out in
the country.
Her work also looks to create a certain reliability to the
events she thinks her father is involved in and to make them more believable to
the view.
The other images look at a series of modules which were
created by traditional Lithuania wood carvers,
of houses which were repossessed jurying the cold war by
the Soviet Union, for using as prisons and on a grim note, for torturing people
they believed to be a part of the resistance
group which was still strong in the country, long
after the second world war had finished.
The images much like the other images have a simple set up
with just a grey back ground, making the images
quite eerie due to the fact that it’s hard to relate to the houses because of
them being out of place, however I feel the modules take away from this
somewhat because it makes them easier the related to making them not seem as
corrupted and out of place, and the places of torturer that they were used for.
The images were also juxtaposed next to an image of the wood
which was used by the resistance. Changing the woods from the traditional place
of fear from fairy-tale and alike to a place of refuge from their own homes
which are normally a place where we feel safe.All works shown were taken by and are the intellectual property of Indre Serpytyte
