The interior of the bar Neperšaunama liemenė is one of the few private commissions that Valdas Ozarinskas realised together with Aida Čeponytė in the 1990s. Although the bar itself operated only briefly, the furniture created for it continues to circulate and can still be found today in the corridors of cultural institutions as well as in domestic interiors. As with the NATO’s bar, Ozarinskas produced a dedicated photographic series for this interior. These photographs are a kind of nude study in which muscular male backs are framed within the strict rectangle of the frame. The models were selected from a nearby gym – an environment that, at the time, was often associated in Lithuania with the criminal world, an association that would take many years to dissipate. According to writer Rolandas Rastauskas[1], the dots and dashes shimmering on the café walls are fragments of his texts written in Morse code.

[1] Rolandas Rastauskas, ‘(Ne)panaudota Lietuvoje’ [Unused in Lithuania], Nemunas, 2020, no. 6, p. 44.

– Virginija Januškevičiūtė

Author: Valdas Ozarinskas

Photographer: Valdas Ozarinskas

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