Indre Serpytype’s 1944-1991
Photos © Indre Serpytype, from her exhibition 1944-1991 at Rencontres d’Arles
One of Simon Baker’s, curator of photography at the Tate Modern, three nominations for the Arles 2011 Discovery Award is the young Lithuanian photographer Indre Serpytype. Her 1944-1991 project shows homes in Lithuania that were appropriated by the KGB for interrogation and torture centres. After recording her search for the houses based on photos she’d found in an online archive, she then commissioned models of the houses and rephotographed them.
Her show documents the initital research, the ‘finding’ through photography, the artist’s reaction to the finds – the models exhibited, and finally the ‘art’ end: rephotographing for the gallery wall. A beginning, a middle, and an end.
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