Lately I have been working on surveying various state security sites in Budapest. Documentaries and photographs were made of terror sites, I got to know the secret prisons and cells of people detained during the communist and Nazi occupation. I got to know very shocking stories and the feeling of war threat prompted me to create a work that reflects on the viewer and their environment. I took manual photographs of the walls, which I developed into mirrors. From the back of these mirrors I removed the reflective material in the form of various hand signs: referring to the simplistic political communication that we experience on social media. This object is the hand sign commanding us to stop, referring to the suffering experienced in the past. The image has several layers, on the one hand we see our present, the walls that separate us, the shape of the hand and behind it the same hand shape on the actual wall where it is exhibited.
The hand signs behind the images,
developed manually on emulsion applied with a brush, refer to the
scribbles of days spent in captivity and the love confessions on the
wall found during the documentation.
The reflected images look different from every angle, encouraging people to explore and interact.
It was most recently exhibited in a cellar gallery in the city of Szentendre, Hungary, this year.
https://youtu.be/HIIYAuv5S1U
