“I took on the role of a wild investigator to uncover a case whose file had been lost. In this speculative investigation, I outline the legacy of an unknown protagonist of the 1990s and, through this, the memory of the regime change.”
Zsófia Móró looks back on the story of her father, who disappeared in the 1990s, from a distance of 30 years. The title of the exhibition captures the uncertain period of the regime change with a concept borrowed from sociology, which refers to a social condition where old norms are breaking down but a new, stable system of rules has not yet been established. The investigation, which expands from a personal family history to a social scale, offers possible interpretations for exploring this complex process, but — like the threads of her father’s life — it is speculative in many respects due to the fragmentary nature of the sources. These gaps and uncertainties highlight the unprocessed nature of the past and the need for a broader social dialogue on the transition to democracy; it is up to the viewer to recognize that the investigation does not end with the exhibition.