vernissage - 02.06.2023 / 18:30 / Września - Market Square / 20:00 - Author's meeting and a common bonfire / Lipówka Center 14 Swietokrzyska Street
Bebok. In Silesia, where Karolina Jonderko is from, every kid knows him. In Września, we are yet to meet him. Who is Bebok? Is he good or bad? Should we be afraid of him? Does he really exist? Does he also visit you? Is he one of us?
You will find out as early as June 2.Bebok. A small town. A group of teenagers. House number 8. A carefree vacation that turns into... a photographic horror film created by one of Poland's most talented documentary filmmakers in cooperation with a group of young people from the Otczapy Theater in Września. Karolina Jonderko was directly inspired by film images such as the following. Stranger Things or Twin Peaks Township, in which the inhabitants of small and implicitly dull towns take part in unusual events from the borderline of java and dream, or to be more precise, dream nightmare. Inspired by the above-mentioned series, she decided to treat Września as a kind of film set on which the events created by her will take place. The world depicted in Beboku all the time balances on the border between truth and fiction, reality and dream, idyll and nightmare, everything seems fictionalized and real at the same time. What is it really like? Come and find out to what extent Bebok This is also your story. Don't be afraid. You will not be alone.
KAROLINA JONDERKO - AUTHOR OF THE WRZESIN 2022 COLLECTION
Karolina Jonderko (1985) Rydułtowy. Daughter of a miner and a music teacher. Member of the Napo Images Agency. Graduate of photography at the cinematography department at the Film School in Lodz. Winner of many prestigious awards including World Press Photo 2021 and Magnum & Ideas Tap Award, which earned her an internship in the editorial office of Magnum Photos agency in New York. She focuses her photographic efforts on long-term projects. Most of them touch on the phenomenon of loss and the aftermath that comes with it - these issues can be found in the "Self-Portrait with Mother", "Lost", "Reborn" and "Little Poland" series. Starting from her own experience, the author broadens her perspective to include other people struggling with the problem of loss - loved ones, place, identity.
In his work, he places extraordinary importance on building a personal connection with his characters.
WRZESIN COLLECTION
The Września Collection is a multi-year photographic project that results in the creation of an artistic photographic archive of the City and Commune of Września. The mayor of Września Town and Commune, Tomasz Kalużny, invites one photographer chosen by the curator for an artistic residency each year. The artist's task is to create a personal set of photographs that illustrate the municipality and its residents. In doing so, he is given complete creative freedom, both in terms of the topics covered and the ways in which they are presented. The results of his work are published in the form of an artistic photography book and presented at an exhibition in Września.
Thanks to the Września Collection, the residents of Września City and Municipality have the opportunity to look at themselves and the space they live in from the perspective of an artist who is an outside observer. Thanks to this "external eye" they have the opportunity to learn something new about people, places and phenomena that are so close to them, yet often escape their attention in everyday life. The Wrzesnia collection is also addressed "outside", beyond the city in which it is created. Września thus becomes a kind of universal city, through which the photographer tells stories with a much broader context, beyond, but resulting from the place of realization.
In the future, this collection of photographs will be an invaluable testimony to our times. Today, the collection is meant to explore, make you think and pose questions.
Authors of the Wrzesnia Collection:
2009 - Bogdan Konopka
2010 - Andrzej Jerzy Lech
2011 - Mariusz Forecki
2012 - Nicolas Grospierre
2013 - Zbigniew Tomaszczuk
2014 - Katarzyna Majak
2015 - Adam Lach
2016 - Rafal Milach
2017 - Filip Springer
2018 - Zuza Krajewska
2019 - Chris Niedenthal and Tadeusz Rolke
2020 - Magdalena and Maksymilian Rigamonti
2021 - Maciej Jeziorek
2022 - Karolina Jonderko
Curators of the Wrzesnia Collection:
2009 - 2014 - Waldemar Sliwczynski
from 2015 - Karol Szymkowiak
Patron of the Wrzesin Collection project:
Mayor of the City and Municipality of Września Tomasz Kalużny