Exhibiting at Fotofestiwal 2025 in Poland_From Yorgos Lanthimos, to fictional villages in the U.S. or wind followers.
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THE US PROPAGANDA, SYSTEMS AND BELIEFS IN THE MAIN PROGRAM
This year we will display 14 exhibitions in the Art_Inkubator Festival Centre including one of the most interesting exhibits of last year’s Rencontres d’Arles, winner of the prestigious Prix Elysée: Model Citizens by Debi Cornwall. The artist, who abandoned her career as a lawyer to become a photographer and whose premiere book was hailed as one of the most interesting publications in 2017 by The New York Times, will show two projects and a film in Łódź. She photographed a surreal world of mock-up villages and fictitious communities of role-players created by the US government for the purpose of training its soldiers, and also explored the US visual propaganda promoted in films and museums.
Still in the Main Program, we will see projects focusing on the systems and beliefs around which we develop our image of the world. This includes Michał Sita’s photographs of historical reconstructions of Polish events by Polish people; Hoda Afshar’s project about the wind that, according to an ancient Iranian belief, can possess people; and the work of Salvatore Vitale, exploring the neocolonial traits of virtual realities. The full list of exhibitions from the Main Program can be seen on the sub-page: [link].
The first highlight from the book section is an exhibition of publications on protests and acts of resistance around the world from the Protestinphotobook collection.
THE PHOTO WORLD OF YORGOS LANTHIMOS
Jitter period is the first in Europe and second in the world exhibition of photographs by Yorgos Lanthimos, the leading artist of the Greek «weird wave», director of some of the most exceptional and most widely discussed films of the 21st century: Dogtooth, The Killing of a Sacred Deer, Poor Things.
At Fotofestiwal, you will see photo portraits of Emma Stone, Willem Dafoe, Mark Ruffalo, as well as other images from the film sets of Lanthimos’ two Hollywood productions: Poor Things and Kinds of Kindness. However, the director will tell us a completely different story in his exhibition compared to that of his films. Jitter period will pose questions about what is real and what is not. The display itself will be labyrinth-like, an invitation for the audience to get lost in it and welcome the sense of disorientation as an inherent part of the experience.
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