Fruits as Farmers Dream of Them in Winter
Photography exhibition by Gregor Božič
Opening 28.03. 2026 at 17.00
Until 10.05.2026
Open every day: 10-13 and 14.30-17.30
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The photography exhibition Sadeži, kot jih sanjajo sadjarji v zimskem času (Fruits as Farmers Dream of Them in Winter) portrays a journey through orchards, custodians of memories, and faces that speak of places where plants and bodies grow and endure. Trees are traces of a fragile human presence rooted in the earth that nourishes them.
In the poetic and at times dreamlike photographs of Gregor Božič—a director, photographer, and pomology enthusiast who grew up between Nova Gorica and the Collio—we recognize trees that are simultaneously mighty and fragile, like the faces that question them and the hands that tend them. Trees that endure on the earth that has nurtured them for years and that they, in turn, have nurtured, with the complicity of humanity, who has chosen not to be uprooted, not to uproot them, but to preserve their identity, their variety, and the delicate light that illuminates the stories that have blossomed around these plants.
Through photographs taken in the landscapes of France, Belgium, Sicily, and the Slovenian Collio, we dream of an orchard where we can take refuge from the summer heat, where the grass grows tall to become a bed and a hiding place, where in the evening the forest approaches to taste the early fruit, and in the morning we interrogate the traces of these visits. The trees become swings and handholds to reach the ripest fruit, pedestals to tell stories. There, at the top of their foliage, we find the flavor we were seeking, the fruit that has labored so hard to ripen and will, heedlessly, fall to the ground in a few days if a bird doesn't peck at it first.
Gregor Božič Sadeži’s photography exhibition, Sadeži, kot jih sanjajo sadjarji v zimskem času (Fruits as Farmers Dream of Them in Winter) was conceived during his training at Le Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains in France. Between December 2019 and February 2020, Gregor embarked on a journey to discover other places in Europe where ancient fruit growing resists the rationalization of production in the great global agri-food market. The journey took him to Italy (Sicily, Friuli), France (Ariège, Minervois, Lot-et-Garonne), Belgium (Sint-Truiden region), and back to the Collio area of Gorizia.
The photographs, printed in September 2024 at Le Fresnoy on the occasion of the exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts in Tourcoing (MUba Eugène Leroy) and the Art Gallery of Carinthia (KGLU), will spend the spring in Benečija, at the Beneška Galerija.
The exhibition was realised the support of the Autonomous Region of Friuli Venezia Giulia (Sadna krajina project, Regional Law no. 26/2007, art. 22, paragraph 3) and the European Union (Fund for small projects GO! 2025 of the Interreg VI-A ItaliaSlovenia 2021-2027 Programme, managed by the GECT GO, Uncommon Fruits project)
