In the Karinthy Salon, we can see a series of photographs taken by Tamás Schild years earlier, which he titled Anzix of Slaughterhouse. The pictures were indeed taken in slaughterhouses. However, the viewer should not expect a sharp, bloody, naturalistic, documentary visual world: the photographer’s intention is not to capture a given moment in time, but rather a transposed reality; they are questions rather than answers.
Anyone who has ever killed a bug, prepared for it, and participated in a pig-killing knows a certain horror. Or anyone who has only seen a body opening up, the secret, the wonder that is revealed, again knows a different kind, awe mixed with horror. How do we relate to the gesture of slaughter? To the consequences? Which side of events are we on? Where are the boundaries, in space, in time, in actors?
The layers of possible meanings have been worked out for years by the artist. Now, in addition to the large prints, he presents the shocking experience in a separate room, in several versions, with projected images in different sequences or selections, with different emphases and interpretations, to make it more articulate and nuanced.