On my graphic sheets, drawings and photographs, gates, staircases, stone-walled roads, spaces with a specific history and atmosphere, natural formations, and parts of landscapes with traces of human activity, which have existed or have only existed for more than two decades, appear, plucked from their original environment, shaped for expression, to become the conveyors of personal thoughts and feelings, guided into the world of symbols.
These are motifs and spatial situations with their own history, cultural references and contexts, which I would like my works to encourage people to wander, explore, reflect, make decisions and tell stories about man, his life, his relationship with his environment and his responsibilities.
In recent years, I have been deeply concerned by the process that has been underway in the world and which has reinforced in me the thoughts and feelings I had previously expressed.
In making my new works, the emphasis and mediating motifs have mostly changed and the feelings related to the vulnerability of the world around us have been heightened.
The momentary visual states of chosen spaces, atmospheric phenomena, forms drawn by light have become important and I am concerned with how, through their capture and use, motifs from the past and present can together convey ideas, and whether my prints, drawings and photographs can contribute to strengthening respect and commitment to the values of the created world.
Kinga Horváth