Cell–Portrait – with this title, Barnabás Neogrády–Kiss’s exhibition takes the continuous exploration of worldview and self–perception, the environment and ourselves, the certainties that can be gained from all this, and the feelings, emotions, and knowledge that arise from it to new levels.
Self-portraits, grid structures, and images of diseased organs, structured and organized into constellations, embody the process of searching. These are experiments: to experience where the boundaries lie between what is only visible and what is only knowable, guessable, or hidden. At the same time, it is an attempt to grasp, not at the level of theory, but at the level of experience, what all this depends on in the sequence of given circumstances, situation, perception, conceptualization, and knowledge.
It is driven by the desire for certainty and the security of understanding, but it always comes down to the fact that, instead of fixed, graspable answers, it is the process itself that is certain. Experiencing in the present that if we try to go beyond the fixed patterns of perception—and if this changes the how, detail, and depth of observation—then the emotional, conscious, and physical reactions triggered by stimuli also shift: uncertainty and fear can dissolve in the process of revealing ever smaller details.