A city does not have its own tale. The tale of a city is the tale of its people: the totality of all the stories of its residents, of the people passing through and the people moving away.
Accordingly, Marianne Csáky’s exhibition – featuring her most recent works – focuses on human relationships, the subtle movements and gestures capable of expressing them, especially when these situations arise amidst momentous historical events.
This micro-macro relation is reinforced by the temporality, or rather, the timelessness, of the works. Exploring the impressions of individual and collective memory, Csáky incorporates photographic documents of 20th century history as well as her own work from decades earlier into the exhibited pieces – all set in an imaginary, future context.
By means of photography, drawing, sculpture and video, she juxtaposes moments of everyday life with absurd moments of modern history, conveying both the artist’s personal experiences and common mementos of (Western) society.