Now is not the right time

Bol

An intimate journey through the labyrinth of a family secret, focusing on the impossibility of secrets and intergenerational trauma. Peter Pflügler (AT) takes us on an intimate journey through the labyrinth of a family secret, where his father’s suicide attempt was concealed for twenty years. And yet he has always somehow known. Carefully investigating the traces of this silent, dark story, he created images that live on the brink of comfort and irritation, between love and pain. Now is not the right time is about the impossibility of secrets, about what we share when we hide, and about intergenerational trauma. It is a work about pain inflicted out of love, the complexity of silence and the inexplicable sadness of a boy.

Stumpel

Peter Pflügler devises an intimate maze into the heart of his family secret. Concealed for 20 years, his father?s suicide attempt was an occurrence he somehow always knew about. Investigating traces of this silenced trauma, he created images that inhabit the brink of comfort and irritation, of love and pain. While rummaging through this unsettling landscape, we are invited to look closer and discover texts and images hidden between the pages. ?Now Is not the Right Time? grapples with the impossibility of secrets, exposing what we share when we hide. It is about a specific kind of pain, one created out of love, the complexity of silence, and the unexplainable sadness of a boy.