Sara Perović

#1 min Sara Perovic

24. 9. 2025

Sara Perović, My Father’s Legs, 2017–2020
Sara Perović, My Father’s Legs, 2017–2020
#49 Talk TogetherFotograf Zone Festival 2025Jedna Dva Tři Gallery, Petrohradská kolektiv
My Father’s Legs, 2017–2020

“Everything started with my mother telling me that she fell in love with my father because of his beautiful legs. His obsession with tennis became mine. I obsessively photograph my partner’s legs in different tennis positions in our daily life mixed between concept art and art-as-therapy.” – Sara Perović 

Sara Perović’s project My Father’s Legs brings together two interconnected series of photographs depicting male legs in various tennis poses. The work originates in archival family photos of the artist’s father from the 1980s and expands with contemporary images of her partner, staged to echo the earlier compositions. By re-enacting these gestures, Perović creates visual correlations between past and present, memory and performance. Presented as a collage of photographs, an artist’s book, and memorabilia, My Father’s Legs functions simultaneously as an attempt to reconcile the artist’s family past with her current domestic life, as well as a feminist critique of representation.


FALSE FRIENDS
October 4–12, 2025

OPENING
October 6, 2025, at 7:00 p.m.

VENUE
Petrohradská Kolektiv, Jedna Dva Tři Gallery
Petrohradská 13, 101 00 Prague–Vršovice

OPENING HOURS
10:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.

#49 Talk TogetherFotograf Zone Festival 2025Jedna Dva Tři Gallery, Petrohradská kolektivFalse Friends

Sara Perovic

is a Berlin-based artist working with photography and architecture whose work explores memory, repetition, and identity through deeply intimate stories. Drawing on her own experiences, she blends abstraction with emotional introspection to examine how private moments shape perception. Her projects, including My Memories Yours (2019), My Father’s Legs (2020), and TWO (2024), use metaphor, texture, and visual rhythm to navigate themes of mind, family, and human connection. Her book My Father’s Legs was shortlisted for the Les Rencontres d’Arles Prix du Livre d’Auteur and the Aperture/Paris Photo First Book Award. She is also the founder of aTree, a fanzine supporting emerging photographers, held in the MoMA Library in New York.  

#49 Talk Together

This issue explores language – its forms, possibilities, and limits. We look at how we communicate in the digital space, how the language of artificial intelligence changes our notions of creativity, and how visual images can replace words. You will discover why language is never neutral and how it shapes identity, creates inequalities, and opens paths to liberation. The issue features a reflection by bell hooks, the artistic practice of Eszter Magyar, projects documenting the Roma community in Brno, and visual essays by Claudia Larcher and Tabor Robak. The magazine presents language as a tool of communication, power, and resistance and invites you to reflect on what it truly means to talk to one another today.

False Friends

#4 min Fotograf Zone

False Friends

#49 Talk TogetherFotograf Zone Festival 2025Jedna Dva Tři Gallery, Petrohradská kolektiv

Language shapes our world, influences our thoughts, and reflects our societies. In the context of the Balkans, specifically the former Yugoslavia, a region marked by shared histories and divergent narratives, language can both include and exclude. Through the concept of “false friends”, words that appear similar but differ in meaning, this exhibition explores how identity, politics, and cultural memory echo in the language we use, and vice versa. Simply put, we often speak of what we believe are the same notions, not realising we understand them differently. These deceptively familiar terms thus become symbols of regional complexities, miscommunication, and broader cultural and historical tensions.