The exhibition How do soft things break? juxtaposes the works of two artists working in different media, but related in their sensibility and way of thinking. Gábor Szenteleki’s painting and Dániel Sallay’s sculpture approach the issues of the body, sensuality, abstraction and organic forms from different directions, yet groping towards each other.
The exhibited works resonate with each other in an attempt to explore and capture the boundaries of the body, organic forms and nature. In the works of Gábor Szenteleki and Dániel Sallay, softness is not merely a material quality or formal attribute, but a metaphor for change, exposure and fragility. The “soft things” evoke not only sensuality or physical, natural closeness, but also the way the body and matter are transformed by environmental and internal processes. The exhibiting artists do not work with finished or closed forms, but explore shapes of change, fragility, development and fragmentation.
Zsófia Máté