Born in Zlina, Slovakia in 1971, Martin Kollar began his Nothing Special series in 2001. “This project resulted from my reaction to what was happening in post-communist Eastern Europe, the clash with the new system. You are 18 years old, and you are told that everything you have experienced is now part of the past. It is a shock that forces you to react. I began traveling without any preconceived ideas, without planning to write a book. I just took to the road! I went to Bratislava, a good central starting point, accessible to the rest of Central Europe. For four years, I worked on this project focused on the weekend: what do we do with our free time? When we are sitting on the sofa, on a Saturday morning, and we ask ourselves “What am I going to do?”
Until March 5
Galerie du théâtre La passerelle
137 bld Georges Pompidou
05000 Gap
France
