Marie-Isabel Vogel & Alain Rappaport – Maximilian Stejskal – Folklig Idrott Physical concurrent with Richard McGuire’s exhibition

concurrent with Richard McGuire’s exhibition « The Way There and Back »

exploring ideas of ambiguity

quasiment monochromes

Nearly a decade in the making

Mythical motifs such as the swan and the fig leaf brush up against mundane tourists

Marie-Isabel Vogel & Alain Rappaport – Maximilian Stejskal – Folklig Idrott Physical concurrent with Richard McGuire’s exhibitionMaximilian Stejskal (1906 1991), an ethnologist and gymnastics teacher from Helsinki, carried out a study for his PhD thesis on folk athletic contests amongst Finland's Swedish speaking male rural population in the early 20th century. For his study Stejskal biked across large swaths of southern and eastern Finland as well as Estonia for a month or two every year from 1929 to 1937 and then again in 1948, equipped with two bellows cameras and a box of