Photography by Juozas Lukis (1927-2001), Courtesy of the Artist
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Alvydas Lukys’ exhibition 'Not only roots. Based on photographs from the Siberian archive of Juozas Lukys (1927-2001)'
30/01/2025 - 02/03/2025
Kaunas Photography Gallery
Vilniaus st. 2
LT-44280 Kaunas
https://kaunasgallery.lt/en/
The exhibition 'Not only roots. Based on photographs from the Siberian archive of Juozas Lukys (1927-2001)' is a remediation of the photographic legacy of his father Juozas Lukys. The photographs were taken in exile in the Irkutsk region, Alsamay, and several years after his return to Lithuania. Alvydas Lukys selected, scanned, technically arranged and printed the inherited negatives in various sizes.
A. Lukys says: 'In May 1948, Jonas and Agota Lukiai and their son Juozas, who had been deported from their own farm in Buvainiai village, Joniškis county, as well as Kazimieras and Stanislava Petrauskas and their children Aldona and Algimantas from Sauginiai village, Šiauliai county, were in one barrack. After working hard, they eventually had their own farm again. Aldona and Juozas started a family. By a miracle, Juozas’ sister Eugenia, who was not deported, sent her brother a camera after Stalin’s death. The most remarkable thing I noticed in my father’s photographs, and what inspired this idea, was human dignity and the need for beauty, despite a life of semi-starvation, bereavement, humiliation, physical and psychological abuse.'
30/01/2025 - 02/03/2025
Kaunas Photography Gallery
Vilniaus st. 2
LT-44280 Kaunas
https://kaunasgallery.lt/en/
The exhibition 'Not only roots. Based on photographs from the Siberian archive of Juozas Lukys (1927-2001)' is a remediation of the photographic legacy of his father Juozas Lukys. The photographs were taken in exile in the Irkutsk region, Alsamay, and several years after his return to Lithuania. Alvydas Lukys selected, scanned, technically arranged and printed the inherited negatives in various sizes.
A. Lukys says: 'In May 1948, Jonas and Agota Lukiai and their son Juozas, who had been deported from their own farm in Buvainiai village, Joniškis county, as well as Kazimieras and Stanislava Petrauskas and their children Aldona and Algimantas from Sauginiai village, Šiauliai county, were in one barrack. After working hard, they eventually had their own farm again. Aldona and Juozas started a family. By a miracle, Juozas’ sister Eugenia, who was not deported, sent her brother a camera after Stalin’s death. The most remarkable thing I noticed in my father’s photographs, and what inspired this idea, was human dignity and the need for beauty, despite a life of semi-starvation, bereavement, humiliation, physical and psychological abuse.'