Tamás Dobos’s photographs are visual constructions in which the familiar order of time and space breaks down. His figures and spaces cannot be tied to a single era or level of reality; rather, they exist in dense, interlayered fields. The upcoming exhibition offers a selection of defining works from his oeuvre to date, revealing not merely different worlds but the transitions themselves. The figures appearing in the images also become gateways: they do not belong to a specific time but stand at the intersection of multiple time planes.
They are familiar, yet alien — as if they were imprints of a world that exists in parallel with ours but can never be fully revealed. Space functions similarly: internal and external, past and future dimensions slide into one another, creating an uncertain, floating structure. Thus, the Passages are not a depiction of different dimensions, but a way of making them perceptible, where the viewer’s gaze itself becomes part of this uncertain movement as it attempts to navigate the temporal and spatial structure of the images.
The exhibition is part of the official program of the Budapest Photo Festival 2026.