Group shows

Festival theme:

COUNTRY MARKET, GLOBAL MARKET

The role of photography in defining the changes of economy and globalization is growing constantly. The first edition of KAUNAS PHOTO DAYS will distinguish in observing the effect of economic changes on cultures in the perspectives of time and space. Moreover, the exhibits of KAUNAS PHOTO DAYS will pay the tribute to the Aleksandras Macijauskas and other photographers of the Lithuanian school of photography, whose influencial works became a source of inspiration and tradition of the MARKET as a theme "par excellence". The continuity of the tradition to be discovered...

The exhibitions will review the MARKETing of the „deficit", of ideology, work, leisure, news, dreams. KAUNAS PHOTO DAYS will present shows that concentrate on the man both, as participants of the market and as its items to be hired. A special attention will bepaid to the state of the "American Dream", as a spiritual fuel of the economy and the roles of sexes in the crossroads of traditions and transitions.

Let's go to the MARKET!

No problem if no cash in the pocket. Lithuanian MARKET is a place of communication, gossip exchange, showing off and not neccesarily buying...

Mindaugas Kavaliauskas
KAUNAS PHOTO DAYS
Director, Chief curator

Kaunas
August, 2004