Marie-Isabel Vogel & Alain Rappaport – Maximilian Stejskal – Folklig Idrott

Marie-Isabel Vogel & Alain Rappaport – Maximilian Stejskal – Folklig IdrottMaximilian Stejskal (1906 1991), an ethnologist and gymnastics teacher from Helsinki, carried out a study for his PhD thesis on folk athletic contests amongst Finland's Swedish speaking male rural population in the early 20th century. For his study Stejskal biked across large swaths of southern and eastern Finland as well as Estonia for a month or two every year from 1929 to 1937 and then again in 1948, equipped with two bellows cameras and a box of

the Skylab space station

without exoticism

cradle of foundation myths

Air Afrique

The images show the dystopian outside world swirling with the fingerprints and greasy smears of our embodied selves

Hawkesworth surveys the characters and terrains that make up the everyday fabric of his home country: schoolchildren and shopworkers

unpretentious attitude of Tamasha performance into a unique aesthetic of song

show the traces of photographs of that Hedda chose not to disclose of herself

after 437 pictures published over seven books (2016-2021)

Durst's staged

its biological relevance

its shape has been intact: a few thin poplar slats sufficiently stapled together