Kitas Vilnius: fotografo Algirdo Šeškaus "proletarinė" teritorija

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Lietuvių kalba / Lithuanian
Title:
Kitas Vilnius: fotografo Algirdo Šeškaus "proletarinė" teritorija
Alternative Title:
Other Vilnius: the "proletarian" territory of the photographer Algirdas Šeškus
In the Journal:
Menotyra. 2023, t. 30, Nr. 4, p. 248-263
Summary / Abstract:

LTStraipsnyje analizuojama fotografo Algirdo Šeškaus XX a. 8–9 deš. kūryba akcentuojant Vilniaus miesto ikonografinį aspektą. Fotografijos, sukurtos humanistiniam dokumentalizmui alternatyvia stilistika, išplečia miesto vizualinę charakteristiką, išjudina sostinės statusą simbolizuojančius stereotipus. Pabrėžiant meninės raiškos „proletarinį“ pobūdį, aptariamas savitas fotografo matymas, kuris devalvuoja miesto atminties vietų reprezentatyvumą, ignoruoja didžiuosius pasakojimus, atskleidžia ideologinę priešpriešą tarp fotografijos raiškos krypčių ir miesto tapatybės sampratų. Raktažodžiai: Vilnius, Algirdas Šeškus, fotografija, „proletarinė“ raiška, kultūrinė atmintis. [Iš leidinio]

ENThe article analyses the works of the photographer Algirdas Šeškus in the 1970s–1980s highlighting the iconographic aspect of Vilnius. Created in a style alternative to the humanistic documentalism developed by the Lithuanian school of photography, the photographs expand the visual characteristics of the city and disrupt the stereotypes that symbolise the status of the capital. Emphasising ‘the proletarian’ character of artistic expression, the article discusses the distinctive vision of the photographer who devalues the representativeness of the city’s memory sites, ignores the grand narratives, and reveals the ideological contradictions between the schools of photographic expression and the conceptions of the city’s identity. Resorting to a metaphorical association with the concept developed by China Miéville’s in his novel The City & The City, where the mode of coexistence of two cities on the same territory is ‘invisibility’, the article unveils the ideological contradictions between photographic expressions and notions of the city’s identity. Michel Foucault’s theory of heterotopias is advantageous for marking the border zones of intersecting socio-cultural interests. By entering representative spaces, the photographer expropriates and demolishes them: he ignores the sacral aspects of Vilnius’s ‘places of memory’, de-romanticises the capital’s emblematic sites, and decrowns the city’s monuments and heroes. The artist suppresses the aggressiveness of the art of photography and the art in photography, imparts a ‘proletarian’ spirit to the image, and transforms any part of the city into a ‘proletarian’ territory. Keywords: Vilnius, Algirdas Šeškus, photography, ‘proletarian’ expression, cultural memory. [From the publication]

DOI:
10.6001/menotyra.2023.30.4.2
ISSN:
1392-1002; 2424-4708
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2023-12-27 15:24:10
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