{"id":19842,"date":"2023-10-03T11:34:03","date_gmt":"2023-10-03T09:34:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/croatian-photography.com\/?p=19842"},"modified":"2024-02-13T14:02:32","modified_gmt":"2024-02-13T13:02:32","slug":"kai-annett-becker-srecko-rijetkovic-please-do-not-fold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/croatian-photography.com\/en\/kai-annett-becker-srecko-rijetkovic-please-do-not-fold\/","title":{"rendered":"Kai-Annett Becker & Sre\u0107ko Rijetkovi\u0107: “Please Do Not Fold”"},"content":{"rendered":"
October 9th \u2013 November 3rd 2023<\/strong><\/div>\n
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The Spot Gallery and the Office for Photography announce the exhibition\u00a0Please Do Not Fold<\/em><\/strong> by the artists Kai-Annett Becker<\/strong> & Sre\u0107ko Rijetkovi\u0107<\/strong>. The exhibition opening will be held on 9th October at 7 p.m. <\/strong>at the Spot Gallery.<\/div>\n
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Two artists, two different backgrounds, two different educations, ways of life. Sre\u0107ko Rijetkovi\u0107 was born in Zagreb, and lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden. Kai-Annett Becker was born in Hannover, and lives and works in Berlin, Germany. They met for the first time in 1998 in Pula, where they both led photography workshops for pupils and students. In conversation, they realised thy share similar views on photography so they decide to collaborate. Sre\u0107ko had left Croatia a few years earlier and was faced with a vastly different new cultural identity; therefore, working with Kai-Annett was a welcome challenge. Thanks to a DAAD research grant, Kai-Annett travelled around Croatia and was drawn to the uniqueness of the country and its people. After Pula, their joint work continued in parallel with their daily lives at distant addresses. It started with a photograph that Kai-Annett took in Berlin and sent to Sre\u0107ko, after which he noticed it resembled a photo he had taken, around the same time, in Stockholm. Sre\u0107ko then \u201cfine-tuned\u201d the scene and took a new photo to make it resemble Kai-Annett\u2019s even more. At first glance, the photographs favour everyday life devoid of anything spectacular, but each of the captured motifs is provoked by particular forces that constitute reality. The project that continued to develop from there combines humour with philosophical questions, the ones we associate with inspiration, artistic references, the issue of copies.<\/p>\n

Further elaborating their \u201ctwinning\u201d series, Kai-Annett and Sre\u0107ko continued searching through their archives, looking for similarities in motifs, and tried to identify motifs in Berlin and Stockholm that would stimulate the creation of new works. The project effectively builds on Barthes\u2019 analysis of the \u201cdocile interests\u201d of certain shots. In contrast to what Barthes terms a unary photograph \u2013 one that produces only one effect \u2013 Kai-Annett and Sre\u0107ko search for the centre of interest that leads them to take pictures, for that one piercing detail \u2013 the punctum<\/em>, for the moment that ultimately bears witness to what was; something akin to a<\/em> certificate of presence<\/em>, with a touch of humour with which they approach the philosophy of everyday art. Whether this is a banana peel, spotted on the street in Stockholm and\/or Berlin, or some other coincidence, we are able to ascertain in the selection of photographs presented at the Spot Gallery on this occasion, in which they address questions such as originality of motif, inspiration, artistic process, presentation of artistic work, abstraction, the position of photography in the age of its maximum use and unstoppable documentation of anyone\u2019s daily life.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf, according to Flusser, photography is the most abstract mode of image creation, does this mean that we abstract the world around us? \u2013 More so than ever.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sandra Kri\u017ei\u0107 Roban<\/p>\n

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Kai-Annett Becker<\/strong> (1968, Hannover), freelance photographer based in Berlin. She graduated in photo design at the FH Dortmund in 1993. From 1993 until 2011, she was an assistant to artist photographer Michael Schmidt in Berlin. In 1999, she enrolled in Master studies in photography with Prof. Timm Rautert at the HGB Leipzig. Since 2008, she was a photographer for the State Museum of Modern Art, Architecture and Photography \u2013 Berlinische Galerie, Berlin. Since 2021, she works at the photographic department of the Bauhaus Archive, Museum of Design in Berlin.<\/p>\n

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Sre\u0107ko Rijetkovi\u0107<\/strong> (1964, Zagreb) holds the title of medical radiology engineer from the Faculty of Medicine in Zagreb. He gained additional education in the field of Scandinavian languages, photography, graphics and art theory, among other things, at the Royal College of Art in Stockholm. He earned his Master\u2019s degree in medical ultrasound at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, in 2008.<\/p>\n

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The exhibition is supported by Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia, City of Zagreb, and Kultura Nova Foundation.<\/h5>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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