“ROYGBIV is a look back with the inner eye, with human perception as the central tool. Perhaps even with the aim of remembering how it was when the world seemed forever right especially in its fleeting transience.” – Lina Morawetz
The long-term photographic project (2016-2022) is the result of the ongoing recording of a feeling: the search for the personal traces of time. The series deals with growing up and rediscovering the place you left behind. It attempts to decipher what it means to feel connected and at the same time increasingly distanced from the formative period of growing up. The personal bond is woven from a collection of memories and hopes, yet the visual surface remains seemingly unchanged. ROYGBIV explores this ambivalent connection to the landscapes and personalities that have become part of the lived reality in the Salzburg region. Thereby photography is used to describe the imagined world of memory and to record how this idea changes with each visit.
The title is an acronym for the colors of the rainbow, an optical phenomenon that has repeatedly appeared in the landscapes over the many summers. The colors of the arc depend on the position of the viewer. The composition changes with every step.

Vincent Forstenlechner, *1996 lives and works in Vienna and Salzburg.