ALEKSANDRAS OSTAŠENKOVAS. PORTRAIT OF AN UNNAMED TIME. 1968-2024

On February 1, 2024, at 5.30 p.m., the exhibition ‘Portrait of an Unnamed Time. 1968-2024’ by Aleksandras Ostašenkovas opens at the Photography Museum (Vilniaus St. 140, Šiauliai).  The exhibition will run until March 31, 2024.

A. Ostašenkovas’ worldview, the relationship with the human being, values and the authorial style are not subject to changing times, epochs, social orders or fashions. His profound creation, calm and speaking about foundational meanings have been a strong counterweight to the superficiality, materiality and vanity of today’s world for already several decades. It enchains the attention, makes one pause, immerse oneself in a meditative journey into the depths of one’s being, experience the breath of eternity, which is unveiled in the photographs, empathically feel the author’s time, fates and experiences of people who surrounded him.

The exhibition presents the series ‘Portrait of an Unnamed Time. 1968-2024’ created by the author over many decades. Its development was motivated by the need to reflect on the changing time and experience, to collect personally experienced life fragments, to summarize time and one’s being in time. The series generalises the experiences of the author and his contemporaries, talks about the slips of time, personal and social fractures, values, relationships, and temporality. The exhibition is full of pensive existential sensibility, premonitions of temporality and nonexistence, peculiar depth and attention to the environment, the human’s being, feelings, destiny.