Factum

acb Gallery presents its third solo exhibition of Marcell Esterházy’s works.

Titled compare (cf.), the artist’s 2013 debut focused on the thematic features characteristic of Esterházy, such as family history examined in a broader historical context or through personal attachments and memories.

The works exhibited at his show Night Blindness at the acb Attachment in 2017 were rooted even more radically in an even more private phenomenon of memory and coping with the past: the experience of mourning.

The exhibition Factum presents a selection from Esterházy’s recent works, this tiime related more to general political and media theoretical issues than to the crisis of the accessibility of reality and the credibility of representations.

Dealing with communication and the uncertainty of factuality (which had already had a significant role in the works at the 2015 exhibition Meaning at the Capa Center), these works rekindle the technical and mediatic procedures characteristic of Esterházy’s practice, including re-enactment and the gesture of appropriating found images, the symbology of the hand, which spans across his oeuvre, or the evocation of such historical sources and objects as the first optical telegraph.