While the blades have survived the millennia, the cords have rotted. Stone axes and bronze arrowheads wait patiently for archaeologists to unearth them, while we forget the missing threads that held the fabric of civilisation together. Age of string is the result of a collaboration between the artist duo Ejtech and Tamás Melkovics.
Ejtech (Judit Eszter Kárpáti, Esteban de la Torre) focuses on the relationship between materiality, technology and man. Guided by material research, they create performative installations, multi-channel sound sculptures and dynamic textile surfaces. Their works are constant translations between different hybrid temporalities of materials, spaces and sounds. Their personal cosmology is informed by the philosophy of new materialism, word aesthetics, holonic theories and technospiritualism.
The starting point of Tamás Melkovics’ work is play; the free way of thinking, which is closely intertwined with the behaviour and learning methods that define childhood. He works with a constantly contemplative, exploratory and open attitude, using traditional sculptural foundations as a springboard. Her sculptural tools are open and experimental. Personal expression and intuition play an essential role in the creation of his works. She creates her sculptures through emotions, feelings, technical questions and experiences. His work attempts to break down the static, closed foundations of sculpture. He creates signs, characters, groups of meaningful and abstract forms. From these elements, he builds, rearranges, dismantles and rebuilds compositions of varying scale, maintaining a kind of dialogue with our ever-changing physical world.