![]() The series was completed in 2020, and the timing was perfect: the pandemic, the existential insecurity and depression have turned many people to music and movies they listened to and watched as children, in the period the images of the series Tutti Frutti evoke. I went to see the Schwarzenegger museum as well, which is not even a collection but a sanctuary raised for a living man. I visited a retro game fair, where pinball machines and arcade games were not items of utility but museum objects, or relics, which are taken out of their hiding places on exceptional occasions. I photographed people in their thirties who fondly remember their childhood, some of them still preserving their treasured possessions–including Barbie dolls, trolls, Nintendo relics and Polly Pocket figurines–locked up or in a display case. ![]() I was looking for people in their twenties who are not riding the latest fashion wave but who are obsessed with a particular style and material culture which was in vogue when they had not even been born. In my series, I explore items stuck here from the 1980s and 1990s. A new youth is rising, and they have no memory of Sándor Friderikusz’s jackets. Tamagotchis are coming back, Buffalo shoes are not only worn by clubbers, and the 3310 is the new 3210. ![]() I am over thirty years old, and my childhood is back in fashion.
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