Monika Bielskyte
11 Dec 2008 - 18 Jan 2009
Foam 3_h: MONIKA BIELSKYTE
"A place to wash the heart"
11 December 2008 - 18 January 2009
Young Lithuanian artist Monika Bielskyte presents the first part of A Place to Wash the Heart at Foam_Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam beginning 12 December 2008.
A Place to Wash the Heart is an ongoing project which is shown here in Foam for the first time in a series of projections.
In recent years, Bielskyte has travelled around the East, including Cambodia, China, Vietnam and Laos, inspired by the fusion of Eastern and Western philosophy, literature and culture. These are countries with a turbulent past, and a present marked by momentous historical events. Bielskyte looks for a new dimension to this burden of history: the private, individual history of the people who live there. She explores how they relate to the world around them. Her dark, often mysterious images show us a world in which dreams become real, and reality a dream. Intimate personal stories become part of history, and merge to form something completely new. These are not artificial images, and Bielskyte is not showing the world any differently to the way it is. Her photos depict cruel and horrific scenes couched in beauty and simplicity. Dark and disturbing, yet above all honest and authentic.
A Place to Wash the Heart was made possible with support from SBK Amsterdam and Van Bijlevelt Stichting.
"A place to wash the heart"
11 December 2008 - 18 January 2009
Young Lithuanian artist Monika Bielskyte presents the first part of A Place to Wash the Heart at Foam_Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam beginning 12 December 2008.
A Place to Wash the Heart is an ongoing project which is shown here in Foam for the first time in a series of projections.
In recent years, Bielskyte has travelled around the East, including Cambodia, China, Vietnam and Laos, inspired by the fusion of Eastern and Western philosophy, literature and culture. These are countries with a turbulent past, and a present marked by momentous historical events. Bielskyte looks for a new dimension to this burden of history: the private, individual history of the people who live there. She explores how they relate to the world around them. Her dark, often mysterious images show us a world in which dreams become real, and reality a dream. Intimate personal stories become part of history, and merge to form something completely new. These are not artificial images, and Bielskyte is not showing the world any differently to the way it is. Her photos depict cruel and horrific scenes couched in beauty and simplicity. Dark and disturbing, yet above all honest and authentic.
A Place to Wash the Heart was made possible with support from SBK Amsterdam and Van Bijlevelt Stichting.