Enikő Hangay: Blue Rooster

Artists: Gabriella Csoszó, Viola Fátyol, Enikő Hangay, Zsuzsanna Kemenesi, Ágnes Szabics
Title: Reality on Cloud 9
Place: HCB, 10 Treurenberg, 1000 Brussels
Date: 15 July 2010 – 3 Sept 2010
Curator: Gabriella Csizek
Opening: 20h Friday 16 July 2010

These photos depict the dream like connotations of our reality and the road to an inner world caught on camera. What surrounds us is not only the real world, but that of dreams and imagination. However, there is no strong border, we can see that one world exists in another and their coexistence constructs our everyday lives.

In Gabriella Csoszó’s photo series people’s almost similar face expressions make them look identical, but different at the same time. Her strange photos, by showing us how our attention is sometimes focused on the inner world, bring us to the questions of the inner world like togetherness, confidence and defencelessness. The secret world of inner life is open as well. What can we see on our eyelid canvas, where does the invisible glimpse lead?

Viola Fátyol found some lost photos and she took many of them by herself. On these photos she depicts the subtle gradations, which can be found on the balk of reality and imagination, wakefulness and dreams. Sometimes she creates the image, which later becomes a picture, only by cutting, with the boundaries of the camera lense. Sometimes it is solely the nature, which alloys the system of dreams and reality. In some occasions, however, she organizes the theme, installing into the picture what should be there and removing the unfitting, thus recolouring the meaning of everything.

Enikő Hangay finds her themes through exposing herself to and then absorbing the world. Through her photos, showing herself, her family and friends and personal living space that lovely and timid reality, which is hers and through her pictures can be ours as well, becomes shareable. Hangay finds picturesque details in our everyday lives and she presents in a hidden – but for her visible – a nexus of forms and colours, which can create harmony. The showing of Mothership, with children around, leads us to a real dream world, where there is a miracle for every day.

For Zsuzsanna Kemenesi reality is something, which lives in a dreamy and inseparable unity. She presents them together, not as parts, and not as details in her pictures either. It feels as if reality would hump from dreams and desires. The reflections, lights, the blinks and all the transient phenomena are fundamental parts of her reality, as the window of a store or the corner of a cupboard.

Ágnes Szabics’s photo installation creates a passage between the visible and audiable world. The sign language she uses for everything is the music score defining not only a musical composition, but an image as well. This way the encoded message becomes visible and audiable even if we do not have a key to break this code. What we see is music and what we hear is a picture as well. Furthermore, using the givens of the building, she creates dreamy scenery on the surface of the glass, opening the real space into the world of fantasy and imagination.

Text by Gabriella Csizek