Prof. Dr. Remigijus Venckus (media artist and critic).
ŽILVINAS KROPAS' CREATIVE WORK

The artist tries to catch the rays of sun in light-sensitive materials, in this way rendering meaning to the reality within the confines of a rather limited print. His photographs portray the world as well as emphasize the pictorial (re)presentation strategy typical for fine arts that depends on the historical situation and tradition.
The abstract photographs of Žilvinas Kropas raise essential questions about the phenomenon of photography and reveal intervisual relations, making intuitive references to the forms and experiences of the tactile and visual world. The photographs help to define their own identity as well as that of the environment in specific, shifting geographical coordinates. Time and space, stability and fragility thus intertwine; Žilvinas Kropas places the viewer in two spaces at the same time – that of the image and that of the reality. It is like a conscious, visual and intellectual game of being-nonbeing. The photography of Žilvinas Kropas shows us that the space is full of atoms that move, collide, connect and are divided continually; in his photography we return to the objective reality that opens up through human senses like a certain given.