I Often Forget is a photographic exploration of layers of time embedded in everyday spaces. In a period of rising anti-Semitism and authoritarianism, Jonas Kulikauskas mounted a World War II–era designed lens onto a large-format 8 × 10 camera and captured images of present-day life (2021) in what was once the territory of the Vilna Ghetto.

The photographs are presented as a tactile experience. Fastened inside file folders and paired with historical testimonies from prisoners, they are chained to tables and pedestals, evoking haunting memories of the Vilnius Ghetto, where tens of thousands of Jews were forcibly confined and ultimately murdered.

The installations shed light on the history, conflicts, resistance, survival, confusion and trauma associated with the Holocaust, historical omission, ethnic and cultural desecration. I Often Forget also pays tribute to the oldest and most significant monument of Litvak Jews, the Great Synagogue of Vilna, as well as to the tens of thousands of people murdered in Paneriai Forest during the Holocaust.