GARDEN

On one side, a man on the border between a breakup and a new relationship. On the other - a woman trying to mark her presence in the man's life in order to free him from the toxic past. On the one hand, bouquets of dried flowers that never reached the recipient are reborn, creating a chance for a new life together. On the other hand, the empty vases impose a more or less less polite to this life, inscribing it in certain conventions. As written François Cheval in the essay accompanying the publication: “A body in search of its own reconstruction, this is what Marta Zgierska and Mateusz Sarełło tell us invite us to consider. Despite the removal of the face, despite the anonymity, the dispersion resulting from the dismemberment does not tell us that it has disappeared. numerous details arranged in bouquets place, by contrast, this experience singular as the founder of a new horizon. In this strange Garden, the fantastic and surreal component makes this short photographic story and stocky a tragicomedy of the body. Photography, and it is one of its rare qualities, has the ability to shape the flesh, to make it a Dionysian incident. To the agitation of the real world, the medium opposes a symbolic violence and grotesque by exploring new and surprising forms. Marta Zgierska and Mateusz Sarełło hopes that a happy ending can emerge from this collage monstrous, that a bright future can be rebuilt? And how can the details of a body, experienced in everyday life as well as in pleasure, can they to become a founding event, above the rubble of morbidity past?