Futuro Retro

Mária Švarbová offers a breath of fresh air in the photography world. The photographer has a distinctive style that departs from traditional portraiture and focuses on experimentation with space, colour, and atmosphere, which places itself neither in the past nor in the future. This new edition includes works never published before.

Futuro Retro is a transcendental and timeless series of images from photographer Mária Švarbová which evokes a traditional setting with sci-fi elements and follows from the immense success of her first photography book, ‘Swimming Pool’. There is a cool detachment and liminality in Maria’s work. Routine actions such as exercise, doctor appointments, and domestic tasks are reframed with a visual purity that is soothing and symmetrical and at times reverberant with an ethereal stillness.