IRON CURTAINS

I spent three months LIVING IN Lithuania, and it didn’t take long for me to notice—something lingers. In the way people move, how they speak (or don’t), how they occupy space. It’s subtle, but it’s there. A past that isn’t past.

At first, I was just observing. Having lived in Brazil and Portugal, I had never experienced a place where history still lingers so heavily in people’s behavior—the quietness, the caution, the unspoken mistrust.But the more I noticed, the more I needed to understand. So I started talking to people—sitting down with Lithuanians, listening to their stories, their thoughts on history, memory, and the ways the occupation still lingers in their everyday lives.

"Iron Curtains" is a photo and video project about those remnants. Not the obvious history, but the traces left behind in gestures, habits, unspoken rules. Inspired by Nietzsche’s Against Interpretation—and his idea that “there are no facts, only interpretations”—this project isn’t about giving answers. It’s about looking closer, beyond the surface, and letting the layers of
history reveal themselves.