The «Sparks» series, which began at the end of 2014, paints a multi-faceted portrait of the war in the Ukraine. The project is a combination of photography, video, installations and collages and is based on the photographer’s own encounters with young soldiers. Sensitively based on clichés and thus far from heroising these young men, the photos reveal their fragility, their mistakes and their doubts. Wiktoria Wojciechowska was born in Lublin, Poland. Her works, which have won her the Oskar Barnack Leica Newcomer Award, La Quatrième Image and the Young Talents et Humanity Photo Award, have been shown at festivals in Arles, Lille, Paris and Warsaw.
The «Kopiec Bonawentura» project is based on a quote from Alfred Jarry’s play Ubu Roi: «The scene is set in Poland, that is to say, nowhere.» What if Poland existed in several places at the same time? Lucas Olivet proposes an imaginary and transnational answer, which is situated both in Poland and in the exile countries of the diaspora, commonly called Polonia.
Lucas Olivet studied at École de photographie in Vevey. He is represented by the gallery owner and publisher Jörg Brockmann and has received numerous awards, including the Swiss Photo Award. His works have been exhibited at Photobastei in Zurich, at Photoforum Pasquart in Biel, at Rencontres d'Arles and at Unseen Amsterdam.
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