Stanisław Filibert Fleury and Sigitas Parulskis photography exhibition "Looking at Each Other"

At the beginning of the 20th century, Stanisławas Filibertas Fleury walked around Vilnius with a camera, photographing the city – its streets, hills, bridges, and everyday life. The light, once captured on glass negatives, reaches us even after more than a hundred years.

More than a hundred years later, Sigitas Parulskis comes to the same place. He sets up a large-format camera on a tripod, looking at the same view for a long time while focusing. The same city. Different light. Different people. A different time.

This exhibition is not a dialogue between two artists. It is a meeting of two eras in the same place in the city. The viewer sees correspondences and discrepancies – places that have remained and those that have vanished. Thus, the city here becomes more than just architecture. It lives, ages, and changes. Buildings, like people, have their own destiny. Photography briefly creates the illusion that time can be held back. But in reality, it only allows us to see it.

The photographs are accompanied by texts by Sigitas Parulskis – not as commentaries, but as a quiet continuation of this meeting. They were born from being in the same places, from looking at the city, and from trying to understand what it means to stand at the same point a hundred years later.

The exhibition opens on March 25 at 6:00 PM at the House of Histories, T. Kosciuškos St. 3, Vilnius, and will run until August 30.

Opening guests are invited to a meeting with Sigitas Parulskis. The opening is free and open to everyone.

Exhibition organizer: National Museum of Lithuania

Exhibition curator: Sigitas Parulskis

Project manager: Dominyka Murauskytė

Architect: Ieva Cicėnaitė

Exhibition communication and marketing: Živilė Stadelytė

Analog photographs printed by: Algirdas Juodis

Exhibition editor: Nijolė Deveikienė