Kaunas, remembered incorrectly.
I make images, objects and digital experiments from a city that keeps replacing itself.
I’m Viktorija Poderskytė, the person behind Kaunas Vaporwave. The project began on 9 April 2017 as a Facebook page and grew into a personal study of memory, urban change and the strange tenderness of commercial imagery.
The first upload
A familiar Kaunas was slowed down, recoloured and returned as something half remembered.
Nostalgia becomes material
Buildings tied to childhood disappear. Shop signs, facades and everyday objects become accidental monuments.
From feed to physical world
The project now moves between digital images, small editions, wearable objects and a virtual drive through Kaunas.
Not a documentary record. A personal version of Kaunas after memory, compression and a little too much sunset.
Vaporwave, locally
Here, vaporwave is less about copying the 1990s and more about using their visual language to process change: optimism, consumerism, compression and loss.
Why Kaunas?
Because the city is sincere and strange at the same time. It is always rebuilding itself, but old versions keep leaking through.
