Previous photo series by Vytautas Pletkus – “Pakraščiai”, “Teritorijos”, “Neperspektyvūs projektai” – acted as corridors of a past stuck in a ghostly present, focusing on relicts that’ve lost their sacredness long ago and have become heavy in a visual sense because of changing decades. “Placebai” (“Placebos”), on the other hand,…

“What do Elizabeth Taylor, a bicycle seat, Carlos the Jackal, a lobster, Silvio Berlusconi and a toilet brush have in common? Nothing, except that their photographs all ended up in my archive of scanned printed matter gathered from around the world over four decades. Removed from their original news contexts …

Glasgow based artist Jolanta Dolewska’s exhibition ‘In This Hollow Valley’ straddles the dual discourses around photography as image and object. It combines different elements – hand printed photographs carefully retouched with subtle patches of silver powder; and clay works, moulded in the hands of someone else, but expanded in shape …