Gábor Kristóf’s third solo exhibition in the Small Gallery explores the abstract perception of time, the tension between collective and individual memory, and the insidious, persistent, identity-shaping effects of globalization. The artist’s most recent playful, installation-based, and often collaborative artistic practices are replaced by a far more introspective, exclusively text-based series of artworks, reduced to the austere format of a commemorative plaque.
The marble plaques of *Ghost Minutes – Salt Hours – Fordite Dreams* synthesize the notes Kristóf accumulated over the past few years with his research into the industrial technology of powder coating and the cultural-historical roots of the RAL color scale. The resulting artificial stone — termed “Fordite”— and the text inscribed upon it function as an objective revelation within the exhibition space, owing to the medium’s inherent public-space character. Kristóf’s expressions — drawn from his subjective reality and at times fragmented — along with his speculative word combinations formed from everyday elements of consumer society, are first etched onto a steel plate and then placed in the “public space,” where they float in the fictional reality of an intermediate, synthetic space-time between the artist and the viewer.