Jonas Mekas | Journey to Lithuania

On July 3rd, at 6 pm the opening of the exhibition will take place at Jonas Mekas Visual Arts Center.

Jonas Mekas (1922–2019), despite the dates in parentheses, continues his journey to Lithuania. His friends and loved ones bring his stories and memories, fragments of texts, and other memorabilia. JMVAC draws egodocumentation and artifacts related to the avant-garde filmmaker like a magnet. In this new exhibition, Mekas returns through moving images, voice, and objects. The exhibition attempts to connect the visual and audio equipment he used with the footage captured by those very devices. At the same time, it is a portrait of the creative Mekas seen through the eyes of other artists. This can be visualized as a chain of images: Camera – Mekas – Film, or Mekas as both the subject and object of the film.

Curated by Laima Kreivytė

The exhibition runs until September 7.