Shadow maker

Valéria Sóváradi (Tárnok, 1950), a Munkácsy Prize-winning artist, offers a unique visual perspective within contemporary Hungarian fine art. The exhibition titled *Shadow Maker* presents the artist’s latest oil paintings, created between 2023 and 2025. The exhibited works continue the thematic focus of her earlier paintings, which are built on the contrast between light and shadow. The paintings depict barren, homogeneous surfaces and walls illuminated by artificial light, suffused with an atmosphere of subtle anxiety. The illuminated details are emphasized, while the surroundings remain dim, hinting at another hidden world. The depicted interior and exterior spaces are not specific locations but represent a general, urban experience. These simple, imagined architectural elements, details, and objects are all around us, serving as allusions to human presence and scale, as well as to the stories hidden behind them.