Provisional Arrangement
Martin Kollar
Fotofestiwal
Polish, English
Softcover
22 pages
155 x 210 mm
2017
ISBN Not Available
This is a catalogue of the Martin Kollar exhibition Provisional Arrangement which took place at the Fotofestiwal in Łódź, Poland in 2017. Winner of the 2016 Prix Elysée, Martin Kollar’s work, Provisional Arrangement, considers that which is temporary in a world made up of provisional situations and solutions. “We are tenants of culture”, wrote Nicolas Bourriaud, foreseeing a world of precarious inhabitation of ideas. “I grew up in Czechoslovakia during the Communist era,” says Kollar, “and with the motto, with the Soviet Union for all Eternity – which has been one of my few experiences with eternity… People of my generation fight against the void left behind the abandoned dogmas.” It is this world that Kollar turns to, one of aborted eternities and slackened certainties – to situations which reveal the disintegration of permanences, capturing their fall into the provisional.
(source: https://www.martinkollar.com/books/provisional-arrangement)
About the Artist
Martin Kollar (b. 1971, Zilina) is a Czechoslovakian artist who studied at the Academy of Performing Arts Bratislava, the Film faculty, camera department. He has been working as a freelance photographer and cinematographer since he has been graduated there. He has received several grants and awards, including the Prix Elysee and Oscar Barnack Award. His work has been exhibited across the world, including Brooklyn Museum, the Slovak National Gallery (Bratislava), Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany, Tel Aviv museum of art and Musee Elysee (Lausanne).
martinkollar.com
(source https://www.martinkollar.com/bio)
About the Organisation
Fotofestiwal was established in 2001 as one of the first photography events in Poland. It was a spontaneous initiative of students and lecturers of the Sociology Department. Since then, photography and ways of organizing cultural events have transformed. The same has been true for Fotofestiwal itself – we have a different perspective towards the program, we work differently, our viewer’s needs have changed. Still, Fotofestiwal remains a space for presenting various forms and types of photography, a forum for discussion about art and society, a motivation to search for alternative methods of discussing and exhibiting photography. But first of all, invariably, it is a place where people meet.
fotofestiwal.com
(source: https://fotofestiwal.com/2022/en/about-the-festiwal/)
