Marie-Isabel Vogel, Alain Rappaport & Maximilian Stejskal – Folklig idrott In Stock seeks to rearrange the relationship

seeks to rearrange the relationship with the aesthetics of consumer culture by referencing and remaking nostalgic imagery

this time sourcing the images from erotica

but also in the materiality of the various narratives of women living and creating in between cultures

I'm working with highly iconographic pictures — pictures that are looked at as though what one sees were already completely clear

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Marie-Isabel Vogel, Alain Rappaport & Maximilian Stejskal – Folklig idrott In Stock seeks to rearrange the relationshipMaximilian Stejskal (1906 1991), an ethnologist and gymnastics teacher from Helsinki, carried out a study for his PhD thesis on folk athletic contests amongst Finlands 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