Dovilė Dagienė Doda in the White Synagogue, Sejny

Dovilė Dagienė Doda talking about her work in the White Synagogue

Memory is Plants. The Photographs from the Vilnius Ghetto is the new exhibition that presents the work of Dovilė Dagienė Doda

‘’The art of memory which photography meets the memory that is stamped on the leaves of trees. This is how the worlds of photography is extended and how it somehow becomes photography – the photography of plants and so both talk to us in a delicate way about unusually important issues ” (Laima Kreivytė)

Dovilė Dagienė Doda comes from Vinius. She is an artist and photographer. She obtained her Ph.D. at the Vilnius Academy. Her draws the inspiration for her wor from the exploration of memory and forgetting and from the exact time and the place where photographs are taken. In 2020 she received the Photography Award from the Lithuanian Ministry of Culture. The award was given for ‘’the conceptual and empathetic look at the old wooden synagogues of Lithuania and for the subtlety with which the artist has given meaning to memory and nature and for the impressive way of expressing her artistic ideas”.