Márk Martinkó’s exhibition is the most comprehensive and complex presentation of his creative art to date. His old, new, and latest works are divided into three thematic units that illuminate and reveal the circle of ideas in which this art moves, placing them in new contexts, or more precisely, overwriting them.
In the conceptual framework of the overwritten protocol, everything we experience, see, and think is a kind of system of rules, a convention, one whose solid foundations have been shaken, or perhaps never existed in the first place, and can therefore be rewritten and overwritten at any time and in any way.
The relationship between nature and man, plants and man, animals and man, analog and digital, real and conceptual, perceptible and imperceptible is subject to constant upheaval. Everything is turning and pushing into each other, it is unclear whether the moment we are living in, what we are experiencing, is already the future or still the past, it is impossible to untangle where we begin and where what is outside of us ends, be it a plant, a stone, a pixel, or an animal.
Martinkó’s research takes the slipping protocols of our existence for granted and mixes them further, writing them into each other in a diverse and rich, innovative technological environment, thereby illuminating their nature and creating new worlds.
Martinkó sits simultaneously in Plato’s cave and in his own mind, which, in this case, is inextricably intertwined with the digitized image and pixels of a plant or an ant, and which, paradoxically, exists outside of him, flashing on displays, broken into pieces, lying in real space. His exhibition tempts us to overwrite our sensory and mental protocols, taking us on a journey that breaks down hierarchies, in which what we previously thought of as opposites become complementary, part of each other, or even substitutes for each other.