H.M. – LIBRARY
Since the mid-nineties, the pages of H.M.’s library and the objects of mail-order art have been a reminder of human destiny in Central and Eastern Europe, recalling the history of each of us, our universal destiny. Book objects and Mail Art works. The written traces of our facelessness, our vulnerability in the grotesque homeland of the grotesque, remind us of the worlds of Örkény and Kafka.
MOSAICS FROM THE LIFE OF MARGARET
The truths of monarchy, expulsion, Stalin’s city and the unions as parts of an East-Central European human story. Words on the back of faded photographs. Years, places, greetings, events, detailed notes. Accurate, documentary-value page on a family photo taken the year before the expulsion. Fragment of a letter recalling the tragedy of Isonzo during the Great War. Neat, disciplined lines, neatly rounded letters, calligraphic script, and surviving documents: identity cards, certificates, marriage certificates, birth and death certificates, and leases. Generations of events, preserved on paper for decades, rounded into history by memory.