At the beginning of the 20th century, Stanisław Filibert Fleury walked through 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 century later, Sigitas Parulskis comes to the same places. He sets up a large-format camera on a tripod and, after carefully focusing, looks at the same view. The same city. A different light. Different people. A different time.

This exhibition is not a dialogue between two artists. It is a meeting of two moments in time at the same place in the city. The viewer sees correspondences and differences – places that have remained and those that have disappeared. Here the city becomes more than architecture. It lives, ages, and changes. Buildings, like people, have their own fate. Photography briefly creates the illusion that time can be held still. 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 encounter. They were born from being in these same places, from looking at the city, and from an attempt to understand what it means to stand at the same point a hundred years later.

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

The opening event will include a meeting with Sigitas Parulskis. Admission is free and open to all.

Photos by Silvestras Samsonas, National Museum of Lithuania

Organiser National Museum of Lithuania

Exhibition Curator Sigitas Parulskis

Project Manager Dominyka Murauskytė

Architect Ieva Cicėnaitė

Communication and Marketing Živilė Stadelytė

Analog Prints Algirdas Juodis

Editor Nijolė Deveikienė