Peter Fettich: crushed strawberries & Matej Sitar: Once Upon a time, somewhere
In this author's dialogue, a well-known and unknown author meets. One of the actors is a box discovered by Matej Sitar in 2006 at a flea market in the USA. A box with old Polaroids, scattered negatives and a hand-written diary. No name, no date, information about the author – just fragments of life, captured in images and words. Photos from the series Once Upon a time, somewhere (date Unknown) show glimpses from different parts of America – motels, roads, aliens, interiors of rooms, their own shadows and intimate records. Peter Fettich accompanies the story of the unknown chronicler as a counterpoint with the series crushed strawberries (2025), where he presents the recording of a personal story during the treatment of carcinoma of the tongue. Through his own archival and newly created material and with subsequent (experimental) work in the photographic dungeon, the author shows his real-time, documentary response to treatment, as well as subsequent psychological responses to the topic of transience and resilience of the human body. Two photographers meet, each recording personal reality in their own way, questioning the contact between the ephemerality of Man and the desire for the legacy of personal experience of the world.
Curator: Sara Nusa Golob Grabner