Exhibition “Long Journey Home” by photographer Juozas Kazlauskas

We invite you to participate in the opening of the exhibition “Long journey home” by photographer Juozas Kazlauskas in the library of the Agriculture Academy of Vytautas Magnus University (Studentų str. 11 – 235, Akademija, Kaunas district) on14th of March at 2:00 PM.

The exhibition “A Long Journey Home” by photographer Juozas Kazlauskas consists of photographs from expeditions to places of exile in Siberia in 1989. The aim of these expeditions was to transfer the remains of loved ones who had died in exile to their homeland. The photographs show the cemetery on Tit Ari Island (Yakutia), one of the largest surviving cemeteries of exiles in the Arctic. It is located on the banks of the Lena, about 500 metres from the river. “For Juozas Kazlauskas, photographing things that were silent during the Soviet era and therefore seemingly did not exist was not just a simple act of documentation, but an act of “digging up” or even creating a memory” – Agnė Narušytė.