The exhibition draws on family memories, personal experiences of loss and absence, and the formative power of patterns passed down across generations (or even across different ways of life). The works narrate, through the act of drifting, a state that we do not know in its process, but all the more so through its imprints: the hollowed-out passages, the half-sentences carried away by the wind, the murmur of water, the Life flowing through our veins.
The “drifting fissure,” a concept coined by historian and anthropologist Jan Vansina, refers to the gap between living memory and the distant past. The exhibition explores how these hidden stories live on in families, bodies, objects, and the spaces of Budapest. Current war situations are once again bringing the wounds of the unprocessed past to the surface, creating new traumas and legacies. The works thus reflect not only on the relationship between memory and forgetting, but also on the necessity of empathy, attention, and a shift in perspective.