Éva and Éva. An animated film director and puppeteer—a grandmother—and her granddaughter, a painter. They have never met, yet they are bound together by the same creative drive.
It all begins with a photograph: Éva Falus Balla’s self-portrait, in which the figure is multiplied. Decades later, this image becomes one of the starting points for the granddaughter, Eva Faloux’s, paintings, where the figures appear again and again, as if the original image were living on in another form. The works born of this self-examination sometimes evoke a distant family memory without merely becoming illustrations of it.
It is around this dialogue that Éva Falus Balla’s legacy unfolds—the drawings, photographs, puppets, and puppet films, as well as the traces of everything that is missing: the lost works, the repeated journeys between Budapest and Paris, World War II and the French Resistance, and then the hardships of the Rákosi era. In contrast, Eva Faloux’s paintings and drawings hold the promise of an oeuvre still in the making.
From one century to the next, between Budapest and Paris, ranging from the art of animation to painting and drawing, the works engage in a dialogue with one another while retaining their own distinct voices. They explore memory, the transformations of figures, and the transmission of a gaze. What remains, what has been lost, and what is yet to be born come together as a single journey: the journey of creation.