One of the defining themes of Anna Szigethy’s art is the transformation of the urban environment and the way in which built space shapes the personal and communal experiences of those who live there. In her works created over the past decade and a half, the city appears not merely as an architectural or urban environment, but as a vessel for memories, personal stories, social relationships, and identities.
Through a number of earlier works, the exhibition illustrates the various stages of this line of thought. Photography, video, graphic art, textiles, found objects, furniture, floor plans, and books interconnect to form installations. In these works, documentary and fiction, personal and collective memory, and the intimate living space and the public urban space constantly intertwine.
A new work in the exhibition, *The changing place*, responds directly to Dunaújváros. It explores the question of what happens to the identity of a city that was originally created based on a vision of the future, only for that vision itself to change.
The city’s unique history — industrialization, planned urban development, and the structure of its housing estates — provides Szigethy with an opportunity to further explore the questions raised in his earlier works and his previous urban research through the history of a specific urban site. The exhibition is thus both a summary and a transition: it looks back on the urban research of the past decade, while the new work on Dunaújváros signals the possibility of a new artistic era.