In 2023, I approached Kristóf Asbó that I would like to exhibit at Fuga. This exhibition started when I got stuck in the bathroom because of a broken lock. I became a prisoner of my theme of freedom. After I was freed by FUGA staff with a large screwdriver, I told them that I was preoccupied with the issue of freedom. Kristóf laughed and said that the opening day should be November 7, the day on which “the socialist revolution won”.
The violence of freedom exhibition is the closing event of a four-year period. According to Byung-Chul Han, the force of freedom is self-exploitation. A Spanish folk song says of love: ‘O, the flame of love burns so hot. What sweet violence! How sensual! Love is also exploitation, but by the other. Its value is the possibility of change. Many thinkers point out that love is the only tool that can influence a person by not being able to influence.
“The warrior possesses others through himself; the lover comes to possess himself through the other, and both lovers become further from themselves and closer to the other; and, dying in themselves, they come to new life in the other. “Ficino: On Love, 25”.
Ada Vilhan (1981, Budapest) is an abstract expressionist thinker and broad canvas painter. Her thoughts demand space. She is primarily interested in the human being, in approaching human problems beyond known forms that are difficult to express in words. In his paintings, colours, lines and stains give up their function of marking objects, but they do not lose their expressive power: colour can thus become the protagonist, touching the soul directly, finding a clearer, fuller echo.
For the last four years, Ada has been preoccupied with the question of freedom. She has come to the conclusion that freedom does not fit on an A4 sheet of paper and that its colour is cadmium yellow…
Ada Vilhan