Lithuanian artist Agne Gintalaite has always been attracted to the “garage towns” of her native Lithuania—large areas filled with storage units for cars that were terribly inconvenient and often bus rides away from the owners’ homes. She explores the multitude of garage doors she has discovered on her explorations, the brightly colored wooden and metal doors that look as if time has tried to claw them to pieces, yet their vibrancy withstands each passing year.
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Her project began after a recent trip to IKEA revealed a sprawling garage town near the megastore filled with hundreds of examples of these doors that outlasted the time when IKEAs were nowhere to be found. “By documenting these objects that are, most likely, about to disappear from Lithuanian society, I wished to communicate to the viewer the ambivalent, aesthetic, but also human significance of these garage doors,” said Gintalaite. “Beautifully painterly, these doors do not need be explained to the beholder. It is the fascinating play of colour and texture that I attempted to capture with my camera.”
Re: Lithuania’s “Garage Towns”
Re: Lithuania’s “Garage Towns”
Re: Lithuania’s “Garage Towns”
Re: Lithuania’s “Garage Towns”
Re: Lithuania’s “Garage Towns”
Re: Lithuania’s “Garage Towns”
Re: Lithuania’s “Garage Towns”
Re: Lithuania’s “Garage Towns”
