Lithuanian Rural Markets

“Macijauskas is able to show the chaos of market figures as having an underlying order. Irregular geometry gains ground in the world of small unnamable relationships, as opposed to the regular geometry of reason. He approaches the edge to peek into uncivilized nature but, instead of being frightened, he laughs: not only at those gauche villagers, but also at death and himself. Perhaps herein lies the answer to the question: how could the humble Lithuanian markets have attracted Western photography experts? Their unpretentious reality, devoid of exotic decoration, forms existential signs, glittering in the dirt like pearls. And all this sounds so little like a sermon, which already bored us in childhood, but rather like a joke, like laughter emerging from the bowels of pain: at the fragility of a life so ugly and, therefore, so dear.“