Suwon Photo Festival, South Korea. 2016
Artists: Arnis Balcus (Latvia), Andrejs Strokins (Latvia), Maxim Dondyuk (Ukraine), Oleksandr Chekmenev (Ukraine), Shilo Group (Ukraine), Vitaliy Fomenko (Ukraine), Sergey Hudzilin (Belorus).
Since the 1990s, each country found itself in the context of the formation of a new, independent identity and a new development path. The Baltic states (Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia) managed to break ties with Russia more quickly and join the European Union, although the establishment of geographical borders was not a decisive factor in changes, and collective memory is still shaping visual links with the past.
The exhibition presents the works of eight authors from Ukraine, Belarus, and Lithuania—eight series of stories about the changes taking place in these countries and the external factors forcibly changing the forms and the borders of “independent” states.
