Color retreat from the world of clear contrasts in the photography of A. Sutkus

Lecture (In Lithuanian)
2024-10-05
Mykolas Žilinskas Art Gallery
Renginys nemokamas, su registracija / Free event, with registration
The lecture will be in Lithuanian.

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Color retreat from the world of clear contrasts in the photography of A. Sutkus

Black-and-white photography, like black-and-white film, looks very philosophical: like being and nothingness, truth and falsehood, good and evil. But this is only a supposed philosophy, where the binary, simplifying and categorizing gaze is absolutized. Overcoming the obsession with silent cinema, full of expressive body plasticity, was difficult for the actors; the voice became a revolution. Overcoming the black and white highlighting of the world with a very clear accent was also a revolution: to show a world without clear contrasts and oppositions, complex, heterogeneous, where you have to collaborate with a multitude of colors, shades and contrasts. The Soviet era also sought to simplify everything to capitalism and socialism. The coloured Soviet era is already something else: it is full of freedom of expression and life, as much of it as was available. The coloured people were threatening the collapse of the black-and-white living world, of the black-and-white ideology, only the people of the Soviet era did not yet know it themselves.

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