Photo exhibition about Nemuno7 is open in Zapyškis

In 22 May 2022, Nemuno7, a former dredger transformed into cultural space will be moored in Zapyškis, on the left bank of Nemunas. You can already get acquainted with the past of the dredger by visiting photo exhibition. It is  near the Old Church of Zapyškis.

Nemuno7 – a dredger built in 1965 in what was then Czechoslovakia, used to deepen the riverbed of Nemunas. Due to an outdated technology that is harmful to the river’s ecosystem, it can no longer be used for its intended purpose. Instead of scrapping the object, a more sustainable solution has been chosen – to transform it into a cultural space. It will invite people to reflect on the theme of water from an artistic, historical or scientific perspective.

Exhibition author Lukas Mykolaitis is a researcher and photographer from Kaunas. He works mostly with personal and historical spaces, for which he uses a variety of documentation techniques to capture, thus rethinking the topics of time, memory, heritage, information gathering, storage and transmission.

The documentation of the ship’s space, made by Lukas Mykolaitis prior to its transformation, captures the time-affected surfaces covered with layers of river plaque. Those pictures are then combined with vintage photographs of Kaunas river navigation from the interwar period, collected in the archives of the Lithuanian Sea Museum. This is another example of synthesising timelines into a seamless, sensory narrative.