The exhibition illustrates a comparison between photographs from today's USA and images from so-called Western towns in Germany. Western towns are themed leisure parks, or fantasy locations, which function in a similar way to an urban community: equipped with mayors, saloons, prisons and churches where you can get married “in style”, as well as cemeteries where you can be buried. Among other things, historical battles are re-enacted; heroism and cannonballs are part of the weekend fun. What happens when this mystified image of the USA from the past, which is brought to life in German Western towns, encounters descriptions of the state of the USA today, which exists in parallel? Where are the differences and points of friction, and where might there be surprising parallels? Photographer Sandra Ratkovic explored this complex question during trips to three different regions of the USA (New York, Miami, Cape Canaveral) and to three German Western towns in Berlin, Brandenburg and Rhineland-Palatinate. In addition, the exhibition presents images from Moscow that are characterised by staging and in which reality and artificiality can hardly be distinguished from one another. Sandra Ratkovic REALLY? Opening: Thursday, 4 December 2025, 7 p.m. Exhibition: 5 December 2025 to 22 January 2026 Artist tours: Saturday, 13 December 2025, 4 p.m. and Saturday, 10 January 2026, 4 p.m. Fotogalerie Friedrichshain Helsingforser Pl. 1, 10243 Berlin https://fotogalerie.berlin/