Zenta Dzividzinska’s self-portraits in the exhibition “We Don’t Do This. Intimacy, Norms and Fantasies in Baltic Art”

A selection of Zenta Dzividzinska’s self-portrait photographs from the 1960s (contemporary exhibition prints) were included in the exhibition We Don’t Do This. Intimacy, Norms and Fantasies in Baltic Art, curated by Inga Lāce, Adomas Narkevičius, and Rebeka Põldsam. The exhibition is on view at the MO Museum, Vilnius, Lithuania, March 9–September 8, 2024.

Find out more about the exhibition on the MO Museum website: https://mo.lt/en/ivykiai/we-dont-do-this/

From the MO Museum’s info about the exhibition: “During the long decades of Soviet occupation, sexuality-related content and discussion were widely censored from the public. According to a famous catchphrase, there was no sex in the USSR. We ask why was sex so suppressed and what kind of love was allowed? How different are the region’s public notions of intimacy, gender, love and sexuality today? We Don’t Do This. Intimacy, Norms and Fantasies in Baltic Art will explore the shifts and changes in representations of gender, family and sexuality, marked by back-and-forth loosening and re-enforcement of norms throughout the Soviet era and beyond.”

“Bringing together a diverse range of works drawn from museum and private collections, as well as new commissions, We Don’t Do This. Intimacy, Norms, and Fantasies in Baltic Art focuses on gender representations and relations in visual art of the Baltic region from the 1960s until the present.”

Self-portrait photographs from the 1960s by Zenta Dzividzinska (contemporary exhibition prints) at the MO Museum. Photo: Inga Lāce.

Installation shot with self-portrait photographs from the 1960s by Zenta Dzividzinska (contemporary exhibition prints), the MO Museum. Photo: Inga Lāce.