Eszter Metzing’s second solo exhibition at the Inda Gallery transforms the intertwined relationship between touch and vision into an experience. The artist has transformed the three spaces of the gallery, which open out from each other, into a fabula where the exhibited works detach the viewer from the overload of vision-centred reality, and thus, through the peripheral perception of the peripherally formed view, unconsciously letting the visitor into the fabric of the self. Seeing and being seen, touching and being touched, threads the spatial system. The viewer’s desire to know by touch eliminates the distance between hir and the works. By experiencing them, she hirself is revealed as a touchable skin surface in a touchable/touchable proliferation of vulnerability, cell membranes, pre- and non-verbal emotions.
A few years ago, Eszter Metzing discovered latex, rubber extracted from the sap of the rubber tree, as an essential raw material for her art, and since then she has used it to create various installations of tentacles. In her current exhibition, however, a new symbiosis has emerged from this material: raw canvas, painting and graphic elements dissolving the body, and biomorphic borosilicate glass embedded in latex pulsate like a primordial principium in a feminine rite. The works and the ‘image’ that unfolds on them become the umbilical cord that leads the self back to its connection with its borderline, to the origo rooted under the skin layer that holds memories, where the perception of the ‘flesh’ of the world is once again intertwined with the renewed perception of the flesh of the self.