Jonas Kulikauskas: I Often Forget (with author's note)

curated by Mika M. Cho; Ronald H. Silverman Fine Arts Gallery, LA, 2023. 

condition: very good, with author's note on the title page. 

Kulikauskas, whose practice is deeply inspired by his Lithuanian heritage, family, and faith, brings history into sharp contemporary focus. “I Often Forget” is a photographic exploration of layers of time embedded in everyday spaces. In a period of rising anti-Semitism, Kulikauskas mounted a World War II–era designed lens onto a large-format 8 × 10 camera and captured images of present-day life (2021) in what was once the territory of the Vilna Ghetto.

Through hauntingly resonant photographs and installations, the exhibition engages with themes of the Holocaust, historical omission, ethnic nationalism, and cultural desecration, inviting viewers to reflect on memory and the persistence of history in modern landscapes. The exhibition also honors the Great Synagogue of Vilna and memorializes the victims murdered at Ponary Forest.