József Gaál takes his skin-covered figures from the Terra Figura and Persona Umbra cycles, Transhuman Fetish and Posthuman Idol series and places them in a new context, so that the hiding, covering shells of the asses, the emotions suppressed by tires and gags, can erupt in a new encounter.
And yet, behind the dogmatic layers of ideas and delusions, souls seem to be unreleasable. The shrouds are fragmented and malleable, but new fantasies are produced, new false cults become a paralysing web. Created panopticism reigns over reality – if the viewer does not perceive the twisting gesture of the tragic grotesque, all is lost.
The distorting reflection is a provocation, the exaggerations expose the false image. Freed from fear, we see them as pathetic and awkward figures. Ridiculous idols who are exposed and lose their power.