As gravitational attraction causes parts of the nebula to draw in more and more gas, the molecular cloud begins to contract and becomes increasingly dense. During this gravitational contraction, the gas heats up more and more due to pressure, and potential energy is released; then, as it rotates, the material gradually takes on a spherical shape. However, most of this process takes place invisibly due to the dense fog surrounding the nascent star.
As its mass increases, however, it attracts more and more material, which first orbits around it as an accretion disk, and then part of it falls into this protostar, which continues to grow and heat up until, under the pressure, hydrogen fusion begins within it, adding new elements to the periodic table. The remaining material, blown away by the wind of the now-radiating star, forms into planets as it orbits. However, as soon as the balance between the fusion of increasingly heavier elements and gravity is disrupted, the star collapses in on itself, leading to a supernova explosion that occurs in a fraction of a second, ejecting a beam of light that will travel for millions of years.
All this from another planet, one situated at just the right distance from its own star—which will one day explode as well—so that life might arise on it, and, moreover, for that life to develop the ability to reconstruct a memory from that particular flash—which bears a striking resemblance to a camera flash—as if it were an image captured in an instant. Looking back into the past and utilizing material memory is a unique opportunity for humanity. Just as the formation of a celestial body can be traced back from the light of a body that no longer exists, this exhibition seeks to reconstruct the beginnings of the training of a photographer through the current works of former students of the University of Kaposvár.
Exhibiting artists: Krystyna Bilak, Dávid Biró, Réka Bohus, Balázs Deim, Máté Dobokay, Barnabás Neogrády-Kiss, Marcell Piti, Benedek Regős, Dorottya Vékony, Boglárka Zellei