Indre Serpytyte - 'History is Never Black and White' | TateShots

The mysterious death of her father led artist Indre Serpytyte on a photographic journey through Lithuania’s history.
Indre Serpytyte’s haunting photographs show models of buildings in her native Lithuania, that were places of interrogation and torture during the period of Soviet occupation.
Having taken and compiled preliminary photographs of the actual buildings, Serpytyte works with a Lithuanian wood-carver, whom she has never met, to make miniature replicas of them, which she then photographs in her studio in England.
She says: ‘The prints are very, very grey. I don’t think history is ever black and white. I never want to preach on what has happened, because I don’t really know. It’s more for me to understand what happened in my own country.’
The images are shown in the group photography exhibition: Conflict, Time, Photography at Tate Modern.
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[@serialpruners]

so good

[@flyingmonkeys5097]

this is amazing

[@northernavanti]

magnificent

[@jenwombatexcelsior]

Ok but give credit to the woodcarver at least.

[@khali122]

Maybe she wants to protect his identity.

[@tubeberk08]

I will never understand why these horrible communist killers have never been tracked tracked down and jailed or executed after the walls came down, like the Nazis were after World War 2.., the communist regimes were so much more insidious than the Nazis and were around for much longer. They sent people to Gulags, kidnapped and killed their own people for decades. Where are the human rights people when it comes to communists? Where are all the film documentaries? Thank god for this artist, I take my hat off to her indeed, the child will bring to light the sins of the fathers.

[@cliffdariff74]

@Ezra Bridger sorry but you can't blame Trump for crimes that happened in the 50,60,70s... I'm speaking of the world courts in Netherlands etc. Leave present day politics out of this issue.

[@tongaesque6283]

prescient