Anneč Olofsson
Milovan Farronato: An unexpected event, even something banal, can dramatically change the order of things and shake the equilibrium of a family. Many of your photographs seem to freeze these unexpected moments and document the small everyday pathologies that trigger family psychodramas or internal conflicts that cast reality in a completely different light. A hand on a knee or the contents of a letter can transform the familiar into something alien and so speak to our consciousness, whether it be half-asleep or half-awake.
Anneč Olofsson: What is known intimately often becomes a secret, sometimes so deeply buried that it becomes inaccessible. I try to “liberate” these secrets from the grip of repression in order to reveal the disturbing mechanisms of certain family dynamics. I could never use stand-ins or stage made-up relationships; it’s only by drawing on my life that I’m able to achieve the drama of reality experienced in the first person. I’m interested in capturing particular and highly meaningful moments so that viewers’ imaginations will be stimulated and empowered, so that they can recognize the blocked moments that are part of everyone’s personal history…
The full text is published in "tema celeste" No. 88, November - December 2001.
Milovan Farronato
