Endre Koronczi and the Enemy

The exhibition probes issues concerning the nature of the enemy and the mechanism of its birth. The work to be presented was born from the collaboration of Endre Koronczi, artist and Ágnes Szajcz, psychologist. They endeavoured to experience and encounter the enemy, based on their assumptions and suspicions regarding the subject. Their working method was clinical hypnosis, in order to achieve an extremely personal and first-hand-experience approach. On the one hand, the contents revealed during hypnosis verified their assumptions concerning our relation to the enemy; on the other hand, they rendered the presence of the internal enemy even more personal and intimate by undergoing unexpected experiences of a devastating force.

The existence of the enemy is just as inevitable at a personal level as at the level of entire cultures. The experience indicates that it is primarily the assaults from within that threaten us. This assumes that the enemy is within us. New techniques are required to define it, rendering its identification and the battle against it completely different in nature. But who are we fighting against? “Who” or “what” poses the greatest of threats for us? Are our enemies real or just invented adversaries? How do we defend ourselves against our destinies, for instance? Do we have to defend ourselves, and how? Will it keep existing at all if we learn to defeat it? An enemy that we can destroy ceases to be an enemy, therefore the enemy is undefeatable by nature!

http://www.koronczi.hu/selfenemy/