Gallery Review (Visual Studies)

   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