Marie-Isabel Vogel & Alain Rappaport – Maximilian Stejskal – Folklig Idrott Physical Mythical motifs such as the

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

Nearly a decade in the making

A small booklet is included with an essay by Francesco Zanot

The result is a narrative collage in which the boundary between the documentary and the staged becomes increasingly ambiguous

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

Marie-Isabel Vogel & Alain Rappaport – Maximilian Stejskal – Folklig Idrott Physical Mythical motifs such as theMaximilian 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