Attachments

An exhibition of Beatrix Kőrösparti and András Vég at the Project Room

“It’s not the bullet that kills you, it’s the hole.” The title of the American musician, performer and artist Laurie Anderson’s first single may be interpreted as it is not the bullet that kills you, but the rift, the void it leaves behind. Beatrix Kőrösparti and András Vég went through a very similar chapter in their lives at the same time, without knowing each other. The two artists started to process their situations independently from each other, using different intentions, tools, and methods.

The series titled Walks from Beatrix Kőrösparti processes the relationship between mother and daughter. In this series the shifts in moods and thoughts manifest similarly to the rules of nature, to the rotation of the seasons. Although the pictures present meditative situations and radiate stability and belonging, the small distance between the two persons still indicates that they actually exist as isolated individuals in the world. The photos of Kőrösparti present intimate situations but they do not uncover the inner processes of the women, who, in every situation, gaze into the distance, into the unknown. They embody desires for harmony, or pictures of a dream. The discussions and events experienced during these walks, that is, the actual relationship between the two people, remain unknown for the viewer, but this is exactly how the tension that hides in the silence becomes detectable.

The series of András Vég is titled Dual Portraits. The pictures examining the father-son relationship are admittedly constructed from the motif of a missing third person. The release cord that appears in the pictures alludes to the person taking the photos and attributes to self-portraits, i.e. the position of being left to himself. The series is an honest and open revelation of how various life situations changed after the loss of the mother, the difficulties arising, and the roles changing within the family.

We experience several losses during our lives. We have to walk through the tormenting psychological phases – denial, anger, emptiness, the recognition of the irreversible, and finally, acceptance – among the painful motifs of absence and the waves of mourning that seems to be incurable. The moments of suffering also bring along a series of recognitions, one of the most important of them being that we learn to value the things and people who stay with us, who keep living with us. It is one of the most difficult tasks to fill the void following the experience of loss: the missing person cannot be substituted; it is only possible to ease the feeling of deprivation – as if through an artistic self-therapy. The series of the two artists created along intentions, aims, and tools absolutely independent from each other meet for the first time in the exhibition titled Attachments.

Judit Gellér

Curator of the exhibition:
Judit Gellér

The exhibition is open to the public:
02/02/2016 – 29/02