Erasure
“Erasure” is an attempt to confront history, memory, and what is invisible yet still present. Living in Vilnius — a city layered with complex and often hidden traces of the past — I began to observe not only what has remained, but also what has disappeared, whether intentionally or by accident. This is a story about the mechanisms of remembering and forgetting, about how we live in the shadow of the past — a past that sometimes hurts, sometimes irritates, and sometimes becomes an emptiness that is difficult to name. As a photographer, I’ve taken on the task of giving shape to this void — through images, but also through words. The starting point is photography—both documentary and my own artistic interventions. I use them to show how memory can crumble, how easily it can be transformed, manipulated, and at times—entirely erased.