The concept of the exhibition explores the concept of strangeness, its personal and social aspects.
In many cases, our understanding of ourselves is through our social relationships, through understanding, using or even overriding social structures. Who am I? Who am I as an artist? As a curator, as a citizen? It is through the interaction of our inner world and our environment that we can find answers to these and similar questions. As the saying goes, “You can see yourself in the mirror of another’s eye”.
Close up – from a distance also refers to the approaching or moving away that we make when observing a painting or other work of art. It is only by changing the distance that we perceive the object in its entirety, up close the details, the brushwork, and at a distance the overall picture, its possible integration into the environment. By scanning the distance, the gallery becomes a discursive space where not only are collective works created, but individual works can also come closer together on a conceptual level.
Exhibiting artists:
Bálint Ármin, Benkovics Virág, Horniák Julián, Pais-Horváth Júlia, Réti Virág, Rojas-Nagy Réka Miranda, Sléder Fanni, Szalóczy-Csuha Gyula, Tolnai Zsigmond
Curators: Loj Bianka Boglárka, Keszegh Ágnes
The exhibition is organized in cooperation with three departments of the Hungarian University of Fine Arts.